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3 questions answered about Biden’s LNG pause
With less than two months until Election Day, the Biden administration’s pause on liquefied natural gas export approvals remains deeply polarizing. Backers hailed January’s LNG permit freeze from the Department of Energy as a step…
Harris and Trump debate the future of energy
Trump and Harris are expected to lean into their sharply opposing views of climate change and energy policy when they square off at their first ever meeting tonight. While Trump has leaned…
Don’t believe the talking points — Pennsylvania natural gas can be a winner for Harris
Pennsylvania shale natural gas production, the second largest by state in America, has become an unexpectedly important issue in the 2024 presidential campaign…
Now May Be the Time to Experiment With Mother Nature—Carefully!
When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, the volcano propelled huge amounts of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere and cooled the planet by a half a degree Celsius (1degree Fahrenheit) for a couple of years…
How the UK’s Tory fracture may foretell a GOP break with Trump
Despite protestations to the contrary on both sides of the Atlantic, there have been several periods over the last half-century when British and American politics have seemed to align. The most obvious examples are…
Trump’s plan to unleash LNG exports runs through China
Former President Donald Trump plans to ramp up natural gas exports if elected this fall, and a surge in shipments could mean more business with one of the biggest U.S. foes: China…
Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn
Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are “rising rapidly” at the fastest rate in decades, requiring immediate action to help avert a dangerous escalation in the climate crisis, a new study has warned…
Kamala Harris will not ban fracking if she wins White House, campaign says
Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she becomes US president, campaign officials have confirmed, with the de facto Democratic nominee expected to focus instead on aggressively promoting the stark contrast on…
Does Harris still want to ban fracking?
Kamala Harris ran for president five years ago on a progressive platform that included the Green New Deal and banning fracking nationwide. But now that she’s even closer to getting to the White House, it’s unclear if…
Youth groups urge Kamala Harris to hold the line on climate change policy
Young climate campaigners are urging Kamala Harris not to soften her position on global warming in a bid to win over swing voters as she campaigns to become the next US president…
‘Kamala is Brat’ — is her energy policy too?
The likely Democratic nominee has endeared herself to young voters, but whether she can deliver what they want on climate is questionable…
How Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump and unify America
The stunning speed with which Democrats have rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee indicates their profound desire to beat former President Donald Trump in November and prevent a…
For years, Trump fanned the flames of political violence. Then it nearly killed him.
The political career of former President Donald Trump has been marked most notably by attempts to divide the American people against one another. Even when rejected by the voters, as he was in 2020, his instincts…
Power Switch: About last night
‘Bad night all around’ — If there’s one thing Americans seem to be in agreement on, it’s that last night’s presidential debate was … not good. Former President Donald Trump spewed a deluge of false information, while Biden struggled to…
Biden must talk up the consumer benefits of his energy policy
Daniel Yergin (“Petrol prices may still pose problems for Biden”, Opinion, June 25) is right that keeping petrol prices low has always been critical to the re-election of an incumbent US president. But he neglected to credit Joe Biden for his aggressive…
Costly Climate Impact Must Be Key Topic in Presidential Debate
More than 260 million Americans suffered last week under an unprecedented early summer “heat dome,” with indices over 100 degrees — even in New England, where dozens of locations hit record temperatures. This climate change-fueled heat is…
O’s must step it up to beat Yankees for AL’s best record
The Orioles are off to another fantastic start this year. More than a third of the way through the season they are, amazingly, on pace to win even more games than last year’s AL-leading 101. Their biggest problem comes from the…
How Biden is outflanking Trump on China trade, clean energy and climate change
When it comes to China, President Biden is taking a series of actions to explicitly contrast his trade and climate policies from those of his predecessor, Donald Trump, in the razor-tight 2024 election campaign. If successful, Biden’s actions can…
Angst Grows in US Over China’s EV Dominance
China’s surging exports of cheap electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as a focal point in already fraught US-China tensions, putting Washington on the defensive over safeguarding US industry. As China boasts EV sales of…
Biden’s fight against Juliana climate case is alienating young voters
President Joe Biden is struggling to regain his popularity with young voters who helped put him in the White House in 2020. A group of youth climate activists say they have an answer to the president’s dilemma: Biden’s Department of…
Tariffs risk raising costs of power infrastructure
A wave of U.S. tariffs on construction materials like steel and cement is poised to ratchet up costs for new data centers, power plants, pipelines and other big infrastructure, even as President Donald Trump promises to cut energy costs…
Why the Arctic is important
Losing the Arctic sea ice might make business more profitable for the shipping and mining industries (“Break the ice”, January 25th). But it will cost the rest of the world dearly. Half of the Arctic…
The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exports
“We can now assess the future of natural gas exports based on the facts.” So declared Jennifer Granholm, America’s outgoing energy secretary, in a statement published on December 17th. It accompanied…
Republicans in Congress Could Kill 400,000 Energy Jobs
New EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made headlines last week bragging that he could rescind billions in loans for clean energy. But as with many Trumpian threats, it turns out to be hugely overstated, if not just a flat-out lie. All the money in…
AI is the future of tech, but its effects on the climate could change everything
Over the last few years, the tech industry and their energy-hungry data centers have been responsible for large increases in climate emissions, with Microsoft’s emissions growing 30 percent since 2020 and…
‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears
The vast majority of governments are likely to miss a looming deadline to file vital plans that will determine whether or not the world has a chance of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown…
Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump
Donald Trump’s attempts to slash incentives for electric cars would cause sales of the vehicles to plummet, with this effort cheered on by a seemingly confounding supporter – Elon Musk, the billionaire…
How Trump is targeting wind and solar energy – and delighting big oil
For several years, Republicans accused Joe Biden of waging a “war on energy” even as the United States drilled more oil and gas than at any time in its history. Now, a more tangible assault is gathering pace under…
End offshore wind energy development
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump promised to end offshore wind energy development. On his second term’s first day, Trump signed an executive order that set back federal efforts embracing wind energy…
Trump signs order to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time
Donald Trump on Monday moved to withdraw the US, the world’s second biggest emitter of planet-heating pollution, from the Paris climate agreement for a second time, and put the United Nations on notice…
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