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Finance holds climate key but poor countries fear missing out
Finance holds the key to tackling the climate crisis, the UK’s business secretary and the Bank of England governor have declared to warm applause from City grandees and international investors. But developing countries have…
Bloomberg claims India is bigger contributor to climate change than China, the top carbon emitter
Michael Bloomberg said in the Democratic debate that India is a “bigger problem” than China when it comes to the worst contributors to climate change, despite the fact that China is by far the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide…
CLIMATE: Budget request would ax tax credits, slash research
[E&E subscription required to read article.] President Trump has proposed scrapping an electric vehicle subsidy and massively cutting federal clean energy research, despite shifting Republican rhetoric about…
The Energy 202: Trump pumped up claims about oil and gas during State of the Union
President Trump’s State of the Union speech included a celebration of the recent boom of production and employment in the U.S. oil and natural gas sector. Since taking office in 2017, the president claimed, “we are doing numbers that…
Trump links energy boom to economy’s success
President Trump in his State of the Union address last night claimed credit for making the United States the world’s leading oil and natural gas producer but offered no major new energy proposals or environmental protection initiatives…
Johnson sets out his climate crisis vision as Cameron turns down talks role
Boris Johnson has set out his vision for forging a new global consensus on the climate crisis promising “we will crack it”, amid news that he approached former prime minister David Cameron to lead the UK’s preparations for a crucial…
Saving the planet: UK role vital if COP 26 climate talks to succeed
Boris Johnson’s first steps on the international stage after Brexit will be to hail Britain’s role in forging a new global consensus on the climate crisis – although he has not yet said who will lead that charge. The UK will host…
Don’t fuel Donald Trump’s culture war on climate change. Beat it instead.
Australia’s raging infernos, like our Western wildfires and more devastating storms, prefigure a darker climate future for all of us without urgent action. But for President Donald Trump, the climate crisis is just another opportunity…
Democrats’ climate bill blends the old with the new
Democrats have a list of shiny new programs they want to use to slash greenhouse gas emissions, but their latest plan also relies on decades of existing environmental law to push the federal government’s climate efforts to the limit…
The Heat: World Economic Forum
World leaders, entrepreneurs and activists are in Davos, Switzerland this week discussing the global economy, the impact of the China-US trade deal and climate change. US President Donald Trump held a news conference Wednesday…
Billionaire climate candidates struggle to win over environmentalists
Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg can make the case that they’ve done more over the last decade to fight climate change than anyone else running for president, something that would seem to give them a leg up in a Democratic primary…
Climate-focused Democrats hope for November reward
House Democrats know that their “comprehensive” climate plans are unlikely to see the light of day in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate and face vetoes by a president who has at times rejected the scientific consensus on global warming…
Could sand spread on sea ice help keep the Arctic cool?
Think of the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean as a reflective heat shield vital to a stable climate. Then consider that about 95 percent of multiyear ice, the older ice that’s crucial to this heat shield, has vanished in the last four decades….
Supreme Court weighs lawsuit pitting climate scientist against skeptics
The Supreme Court on Friday will consider whether to take up a prominent climatologist’s defamation suit against a venerated conservative magazine, in a case that pits climate scientists against the free speech rights of global warming skeptics…
The Energy 202: Some environmentalists aren’t thrilled about a potential Bloomberg 2020 run
Many environmentalists have celebrated Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropist who has generously bankrolled the fight against climate change, spending hundreds of millions of dollars of his own fortune on trying to close coal-fired power plants. But they’re not as excited about…
Senate defections show just how far Democrats would have to go on climate change
A SENATE REALITY CHECK FOR DEMOCRATS: The defection of three red-state Senate Democrats on a vote Thursday to block the Trump EPA’s gutting of the Obama Clean Power plan shows that Democrats still have work to do — a lot — to pass…
Climate crisis will not be discussed at G7 next year, says Trump official
The climate crisis will not be formally discussed at the G7 summit in June next year, Donald Trump’s acting White House chief of staff said on Thursday. “Climate change will not be on the agenda,” Mick Mulvaney told reporters, without elaborating…
How U.S. fossil fuels are tied to Ukraine and impeachment
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Ukraine, now at the center of a rapidly accelerating impeachment inquiry against President Trump, has been central to the president’s efforts to increase U.S. exports of fossil fuels…
Climate Change: Are we too late?
Europe has been experiencing record breaking heat waves; there are unheard of wildfires in the Arctic region; glacier melts are flooding out entire villages in Greenland; and it’s official: the World Meteorological Organization…
Will US Republicans Feel the Heat from Climate Change?
Francis Rooney is a Republican congressman from a conservative Florida district who opposes federal funding for abortions and supports President Donald Trump’s plans for construction of a wall along the Mexican border. But…
As wildfires rage, US voters still divided on climate
Wildfires are burning out of control in the western United States, cities are choking on toxic air, and Hurricane Laura battered the Gulf Coast on August 27. So why isn’t the threat of global warming dominating the election contest between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden?
How a Democratic victory might shape climate policy
The 2020 election was always going to be an inflection point for U.S. climate change policy, but a pandemic and a bad economy suggest 2021 might not work out as the Democrats had planned…
Democrats Attempted to Make a Quiet Platform Change. Climate Activists Objected Loudly
Day three of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured meetings of the Black and Hispanic caucuses, the run-up to Senator Kamala Harris’s primetime speech, and delicate attempts by the Democratic…
Biden gambles on placing climate change at heart of US energy policy
He served in an Obama administration that oversaw a historic surge in American oil and gas production, as shale went mainstream. Tens of thousands of wells were drilled and energy-bearing rocks fractured from North Dakota to…
Kamala Harris Came Out of California With a Cautious Climate Record
An unlikely consensus developed soon after Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. President Donald Trump and his petroleum-industry allies fell into near perfect agreement with climate activists and…
Kamala Harris brings record on climate change and environmental justice to Biden ticket
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his running mate, elevating the senator from California who has made climate change a political priority and who will be able to trumpet her state’s…
Environmental justice center stage for Biden-Harris ticket
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate brings significant environmental justice credentials to the ticket, just as awareness and concern about the outsize impact…
Roadblock to Biden climate plans: Centrist Democrats
While Joe Biden is known for his bipartisan deal-making, he must overcome a potentially more significant roadblock to fulfill his pledge of passing aggressive climate change legislation: winning over centrists from fossil-fuel states in his own…
Kamala Harris goes big on environmental justice as Biden considers her as running mate
Days before Joe Biden makes a final decision on his running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris is making her case for the job by issuing a series of environmental justice bills. The California Democrat put out her second bill tackling…
Campaign 2020: Why Biden’s car plan might not be a ‘clunker’
Former Vice President Joe Biden wants millions of Americans to trade in their older, polluting cars for shiny new electric vehicles. The strategy aims to make a significant dent in greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, the largest…
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