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Natural gas and America’s clean energy transition
President Biden has set the ambitious, important climate goal of achieving net zero emissions from the nation’s electric power sector by 2035. Already, natural gas has playing a key role in lowering U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in the past 15 years, in part by displacing higher emitting coal.
Electric cars are the future. Here’s how to get American drivers interested in them.
EVs are key to manufacturing jobs and reducing climate change emissions. The on-ramp to these benefits is exciting drivers the way the Model T did…
Extreme weather pummels United States
[VIDEO] Dangerously low temperatures continue to grip Texas, as many residents struggle to cope without electricity, water or gas…
U.S. rejoins Paris climate agreement. Now comes the daunting part.
For four years, the rest of the world watched with frustration and a sense of irony as the U.S. walked away from the Paris Agreement, the global climate pact it had painstakingly pressured other countries to join and then abruptly abandoned during the Trump administration…
Kerry bets on setting aside confrontation with China to combat climate change
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry faces a daunting task as he seeks to prove the Biden administration can set aside the biggest confrontations with China to cooperate on combating climate change…
US Democrats fear ill wind from Biden’s climate policies in oil states
US President Joe Biden’s moratorium on drilling on federal lands has prompted lawmakers within his own party to warn that the policy threatens jobs and local budgets in states dependent on fossil fuels…
In Biden’s Washington, Democrats and Republicans Are Not United on ‘Unity’
The new president seeks bipartisanship, but he is caught between Republicans who want tangible concessions and Democrats who are in no mood to compromise…
The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists
[Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] Climate scientists are dealing with a strange new feeling now that Joe Biden is president: optimism.
GM’s bet on carbon neutrality rides green wave in Washington
General Motors Co.’s plan to become carbon-neutral by 2040 and drop gas and diesel engines in all new light-duty vehicles by 2035 reflects a newly Democratic-controlled capital pivoting to an aggressive climate agenda.
Ctrl+Z: Joe Biden terminates much of Donald Trump’s legacy
What a recent flurry of executive orders shows about the drawbacks of executive fiat. Building a presidential legacy out of executive actions can be like building castles out of sand—both risk being wiped out by the changing tides…
Five Things in Biden’s Climate Day Orders That Flew Under the Radar
President Biden launched one of the strongest climate policy platforms in U.S. history with a series of executive orders yesterday…
General Motors to eliminate gasoline and diesel light-duty cars and SUVs by 2035
[Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] General Motors said Thursday that it will end the sale of all gasoline and diesel powered passenger cars and light sports utility vehicles by 2035…
5 things in Biden’s order that flew under the radar
President Biden launched one of the strongest climate policy platforms in U.S. history with a series of executive orders yesterday. The moves made addressing climate change a national priority on par with battling the pandemic and revitalizing the economy…
Biden’s climate plans can cut emissions and also be good politics
After a campaign in which climate change played a more prominent role than ever before, expectations for president-elect Joe Biden are nearly as daunting as the climate problem itself…
Biden knows healing the US means addressing pandemic and economy first
As President Joe Biden said in his inaugural address, “To restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words, it requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy, unity…”
Radio Interview: Climate change returns to US agenda
Climate change is back at the top of the US agenda after Joe Biden’s first few days as president. He’s already signed an order to rejoin the Paris Agreement and will unveil more initiatives next week…
How Richard Glick may drive 100% clean energy plan
President Biden’s decision yesterday to tap Richard Glick as the top federal energy regulator puts the former Senate staffer at the forefront of implementing the administration’s goal of decarbonizing the electric sector in the next 15 years…
Global policymakers look for Biden reset on trade, tax and climate
Hopes are high among international policymakers and economists that Joe Biden’s administration will settle a series of global initiatives that were put on hold by President Donald Trump…
How Biden plans to fight climate
Joe Biden has said he will return the United States to the Paris climate accord as soon as he takes office, and is also widely expected to block an oil pipeline project in a move that threatens to strain ties with Canada…
A ‘Nerve Center’ for Climate in the Biden White House
Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly…
US and EU pledge 30% cut in methane emissions to limit global heating
The US and the EU made a joint pledge on Friday to cut global methane emissions by almost a third in the next decade, in what climate experts hailed as one of the most significant steps yet towards fulfilling the Paris climate agreement…
What about the climate
The climate crisis , as well as vaccinations, and even the globalization of the earth, have their negatives. Such issues are primarily scientific and can only be addressed with scientific arguments…
US and EU plan agreement to curb methane pollution
The US and EU plan on Friday to commit to cutting methane pollution by 30 per cent over the next decade and are lobbying other large emitters of the potent greenhouse gas to join the effort…
Automakers blast EV tax credit over union provision
Major auto companies are pushing back against an expansive clean energy tax bill that they say punishes manufacturers whose workers are not unionized. The bill, which the House Ways and Means Committee plans to take up tomorrow…
6 things to watch as panel votes on historic environment bill
The Energy and Commerce Committee will begin voting today on a historic suite of climate and energy programs, as the panel prepares its section of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. The markup will be closely watched by…
Congress must ensure electric vehicles are within reach for all American drivers
There is growing consensus in the auto industry, the Biden administration and among Democrats in Congress that electric vehicles are critical to both the future of American manufacturing and to cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions…
We need Biden’s economic plan to rebuild the middle class
For more than 40 years, a central narrative of American politics, successfully pushed by the Republican Party, has been that government is ineffectual at best, and counterproductive more often than not. Or, as President Ronald Reagan, a former…
Climate devastation is upon us. Congress must act.
Last week, on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida unleashed 150 mile-an-hour winds and slammed into New Orleans, super-fueled to huge size and rain-making power by the Gulf of Mexico whose temperatures are 3 to 5 degrees higher…
Federal fleet electrification faces delays
Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden set an ambitious goal to electrify the entire federal fleet. Now, his agencies are drafting a plan to phase out hundreds of thousands of internal-combustion engines…
Climate activists fear this is the last chance to pass meaningful legislation
Gina Peltier prayed over the Mississippi River earlier this month, hoping that President Biden would step in to stop the oil pipeline that she says will threaten Minnesota lakes, wild-rice waters and treaty-protected tribal land…
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