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CAMPAIGN 2018: Fracking falls from Dems’ sights as they eye majority
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The last time Democrats controlled the House, “fracking” was better known as a cuss word on the science fiction show “Battlestar Galactica” than an oil drilling process…
Three Campaign Ads That Are Putting Climate Change on the Agenda
Conventional political wisdom says you don’t talk about climate change on the campaign trail. That’s mostly because it’s a deeply polarizing issue. In a recent Pew Research Center survey, 72 percent of registered voters…
Voters Split on Backing Federal Coal, Nuclear Plant Support
The Trump administration has explored options to help prevent struggling coal and nuclear plants from closing, but a new Morning Consult/Politico poll shows registered voters are split over their support for such actions…
Why It’s Hard to Change Minds about Climate Change
CBS journalist Lesley Stahl interviewed President Trump this weekend. She asked him about climate change. Here’s what happened next…
Nikki Haley Resigns, Citing ‘Intense Time’
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Nikki Haley today announced her intention to leave her role as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, marking yet another departure of a top administration official…
Trump Admin Shrugs Off Warnings in U.N. Climate Report
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The White House responded to a dire climate report released this weekend with an oft-repeated talking point: The nation’s emissions have dropped since 2005…
Exxon and Chevron Join Industry Climate Change Group
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Climate Summit: 5 Things to Watch at This Week’s San Francisco Gathering
[E&E subscription required to read article.] SAN FRANCISCO — The summit that kicks off here tomorrow has been billed as the next big moment in the global struggle to contain global warming…
They Defied Trump on Climate Change. Now, It’s Their Moment of Truth.
Hours after President Trump announced last year that the United States would exit the Paris climate deal, a broad group of governors, mayors and business executives declared that they would uphold the agreement anyway…
Greens Courted McCain on Climate
After Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Chafee (R-R.I.) died in office in 1999, green groups went searching for another top Republican to take charge on environmental issues. They set their sights on John McCain…
POLITICS: Former Trump Adviser Opens GOP Climate Shop
A former Trump White House official is launching a new venture to combat climate change. George David Banks, who was President Trump’s international energy adviser and an aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), is teaming up…
Gas Exports on Trump’s Agenda for Europe
[E&E subscription required to read article.] When European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker meets with President Trump next week, “energy security” will share the agenda with controversial topics like trade and counterterrorism…
Feinstein shifts on fracking as Dems struggle with messaging
Sen. Dianne Feinstein supports a fracking ban in California, signaling a shift to the left as she fights to fend off a liberal challenger. “I’m not for fracking, particularly with respect to California,” the California Democrat told E&E News…
Centrist Democrats’ new climate rallying cry
A centrist Democratic group says the party has botched its climate and energy strategy for many years — with dire consequences at the ballot box — and should offer a vision that embraces the nation’s fracking boom…
Trump’s anti-environmental zeal might finally give Democrats a way to make climate a winning issue
A paper published today by New Democracy suggests that now is the time for the Democratic Party to figure out a better strategy on climate. According to the centrist Democratic organization — whose advisors include Colorado Governor…
How Andrew Wheeler, the New Acting E.P.A. Chief, Differs From Scott Pruitt
The departure of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, means that the agency will be led in the coming months by Mr. Pruitt’s deputy, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist…
The Energy 202: Trump’s plan to overhaul government would give Interior and EPA more power
The White House on Thursday unveiled a radical overhaul of the federal bureaucracy, including many of the agencies managing energy and natural resources. The Trump administration’s ideas for revamping…
White House reorganization plan draws broad rebuke
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The Trump administration’s reorganization plan for the Department of Energy sparked angry backlash today from Capitol Hill to the nonprofit world for calling to sell off…
Tom Wolfe’s Mocking of Liberal Hypocrisy
To the editor: A hyperbolic New Journalism was Tom Wolfe’s signature style and method, as your fine obituary makes clear. But his ultimate intent was far more political. Mr. Wolfe’s most consistent topic was satirizing…
Fewer GOP Voters Worried About Climate Change Since Irma and Harvey
About eight months after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma swept through the Gulf Coast and the southeastern United States, fewer Republican voters are concerned about climate change, according to a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll…
CAMPAIGN 2020: Is fracking out of gas as a hot-button Democratic issue?
As the nation’s natural gas production booms, Democrats eyeing the White House may find themselves in a fracking fight. The fossil fuel has been called a “bridge” that could wean the nation off coal and help curb climate change…
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Democrats look to shield tax credit from Trump
[E&E subscription required to read this article.] Democrats this week unveiled a flurry of legislation to extend the electric vehicle tax credit, which President Trump has targeted for elimination…
Democratic Green New Deal Defectors Chart Their Own Climate Path
As the founder of a company that turns industrial emissions into energy, Sean Casten turned a career spent fighting climate change into the centerpiece of his successful campaign for Congress. But don’t expect the first-year…
America’s Green New Deal needs copper, but is there enough?
[Financial Times subscription required to read article.] The plan’s requirement for so much metal shows that it is not based on material reality…
Trump slashes DOE programs Perry likes. What’s going on?
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Yesterday, Energy Secretary Rick Perry touted the national labs as President Trump proposed slashing the Office of Science by more than $1 billion. It was one of several energy…
Bloomberg had success against coal, but faces tougher challenge with oil and gas
Former New York City mayor and climate change crusader Michael Bloomberg faces a tougher challenge in his new goal of fighting oil and gas than he had in his successful efforts shuttering coal plants. Bloomberg announced…
Oil and gas advertising spree signals industry’s dilemma: New campaigns show persistent focus on fossil fuels even with shift towards renewables
[Financial Times subscription required to read article.] It has been nearly 20 years since BP launched its “beyond petroleum” advertising campaign, which included a new sunburst logo and a plethora of videos about…
Inslee faces daunting 2020 challenge: To ‘get Americans excited’ about climate change
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee launched a 2020 run for president Friday making a bet untested in American politics: that a single-issue platform of fighting climate change can win. He kicked off his campaign with a launch video…
No, the Green New Deal doesn’t aim to end air travel, as Florida Sen. Rick Scott says
After U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., unveiled the Green New Deal, Republican critics said it would eventually ground air travel. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., outlined his opposition to the Democrats’ Green New Deal…
United Nations: Trump’s new ambassador sees ‘both sides’ on climate
[E&E subscription required to read article.] In choosing Kelly Knight Craft as U.N. ambassador, President Trump is asserting White House control over the U.S. mission at a time of rising hostility by the administration to climate…
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