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Podcast: Labour’s Climate Policies, US Dems and the Coming Elections
Former environmental aide to US President Bill Clinton, Paul Bledsoe, the Telegraph’s environmental editor Emma Gatten, and the economist and former treasury advisor to Rishi Sunak, Tim Leunig, join Sam and Ayesha to discuss the economics and…
Hamas-Israel War Must Not Prevent Progress at COP 28 Climate Talks
The next United Nations climate change conference, COP28, is scheduled to begin at the end of November in Dubai. Beyond the challenges of getting the world to agree on difficult climate issues, progress…
Biden, Not Trump, Is Right on the Autoworkers’ Strike and Electric Vehicles
Donald Trump and the rest of the Republican Party, seemingly devoid of original policy ideas themselves, have tried to make Joe Biden’s advocacy of incentives for U.S. production of electric vehicles (EVs) a campaign issue in…
Rising Seas Imperil US Sites, Military Bases Worth $387 Billion
Rising tides and powerful storms turbocharged by climate change are poised to hobble federal facilities worth at least $387 billion in coming decades, disrupting everything from veterans’ medical care to…
Biden is tight with the head of GM. Could it affect the strike?
General Motors CEO Mary Barra has visited the White House eight times since Joe Biden became president. She’s led the auto industry in embracing his electric vehicle agenda. The president has spent years cultivating a…
Team Biden goes all in at New York climate week
President Joe Biden promised to use the whole federal government to tackle climate change, and he’s sending his climate hotshots to New York City this week in a bid to prove he’s following through…
IN BOTH U.S. AND UK, OVERTAXING VOTERS IS BAD CLIMATE POLITICS
No political comparison is as discordant to British ears as one suggesting commonality with the American scene, particularly with Donald Trump still at large. Nonetheless, recent UK contretemps over energy taxes and climate…
One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer
Thousands of people are scrambling to evacuate the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife as flames from another blaze in the country’s record-breaking wildfire season bear down on people’s homes, threatening North America’s second fire disaster in…
Gas Is a Better Option Than Coal on Our Path to Draw Down Emissions
As the climate crisis worsens, the debate over emissions from natural gas is heating up, too. Unfortunately, both gas opponents and gas supporters have been cherry-picking the data, especially regarding the lifecycle emissions of…
Energy permitting is broken: New analytics can fix it
The energy permitting reforms included in the recent bipartisan budget agreement represented modest progress — but they didn’t fix the problem. The main challenge, and the huge economic opportunity, is the…
Billionaire investor threatens to pull out of UK amid global outcry at new oil rush
A billionaire global investor has led international condemnation of the UK’s new oil rush, saying he would pull his major investment from the country if the prime minister pursued “clickbait” fossil fuel policies…
How can UK political parties win support for a bold green agenda?
The most important thing is to make clear that action on climate change will materially improve people’s lives. Insulation can mean warmer homes in winter, cooler homes in summer. Better air quality, greener cities…
Sleepwalking Toward Climate Catastrophe
The last few weeks have brought unprecedented high temperatures in the U.S. and globally, including the four hottest days in a row worldwide ever in recorded history…
Kerry’s visit to China ends with no major agreements
The United States and China ended three days of climate meetings with no concrete outcomes, but have agreed to continue talking ahead of pivotal global climate negotiations this fall…
High stakes for Biden, King Charles in climate talks
Climate finance took center stage Monday during President Joe Biden’s visit to Windsor Castle, his first meeting with King Charles III since the British monarch’s coronation in May. The topic was a symbolic choice…
A Trade-Based Climate Policy Can Cut Emissions Globally
The recent reopening of diplomatic dialogue by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese leaders highlighted the enormous importance of climate change action by the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters. But it did not yield…
Former Biden and Clinton Officials Push for Harmony on CBAMS
A new proposal from the Progressive Policy Institute recommends the U.S., EU, and broader G-7 establish an “Alliance for Clean Trade” to get on the same page as they develop and implement carbon border adjustment mechanisms…
Advocates see Biden, not Congress, as key to carbon tariffs
With bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill growing around the concept of carbon tariffs, two off-Hill advocates are floating a plan to tie trade policy to climate action. The catch is that the proposal would effectively circumvent Congress…
A new proposal to simmer green trade tensions
Joe Biden has largely put a stop to the fractious trade wars of the Donald Trump era, soothing allies by suspending tariffs and offering fresh talks on a long-running dispute on aircraft subsidies. But the president has brought along with him…
Debt Deal Includes a Green Light for a Contentious Pipeline
Climate activists are livid over a provision in the debt limit agreement that orders federal agencies to issue permits for the Mountain Valley Pipeline — and says courts can’t review them…
Trump hasn’t helped working-class men — but Harris and Walz can
Former President Donald Trump makes many extravagant promises and claims on the campaign trail. But especially for his political base of working-class men, he delivered very little economically when in office…
How the ‘climate voter’ might matter in a down-to-the-wire US election
Despite its enormous implications, the climate crisis has so far mostly been a dormant issue in the US presidential election. Some hope the devastation wrought in quick succession by two major hurricanes will shake up the…
A Shift Among Democrats: Embrace Record Levels of Oil and Gas
JD Vance and Tim Walz on Tuesday both avoided talking about the main cause of global warming that is powering the kind of violent weather that struck the Southeast this week: the burning of fossil fuels…
Economists agree another Trump term would ruin the US economy — will voters listen?
In recent weeks, the U.S. economy has gotten consistently good news. New data shows prices barely rose in August — just .1 percent — with the annual inflation rate now down to 2.2 percent. This allowed the Federal Reserve to lower…
As Hurricane Helene Hits Florida, Trump’s Climate Policy Ducks for Cover
A massive storm, Hurricane Helene, made larger and more destructive due to super-heated ocean temperatures caused by climate change, is due to slam into Florida Thursday. The enormity of this storm (and others like it) is partly the inevitable result…
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…
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