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Democrats see Green New Deal yielding gains despite GOP attacks
Democrats are sensing political gains from the Green New Deal heading into Election Day, even as Republicans deride the progressive proposal and some Democratic candidates slink away from it…
The Energy 202: Biden’s oil ‘transition’ comment may not be as damaging as Trump hopes
[Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] To President Trump, it was “perhaps the most shocking admission ever uttered in the history of presidential debates.”…
Exclusive: GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago
Scientists at two of America’s biggest automakers knew as early as the 1960s that car emissions caused climate change, a monthslong investigation by E&E News has found…
Gov. DeWine must prepare voters for possible delays in real election results
The plots uncovered recently to abduct and possibly assassinate Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and to kill law enforcement officials and storm the Michigan State Capitol, and a separate plot that may have targeted Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, should be shocking to all Americans…
EPA attacks Obama’s Flint response in pre-election push
As President Trump seeks to burnish his green credentials before Election Day, he’s poised to zero in on a major crisis from the Obama era with environmental justice implications: water contamination in Flint, Mich…
Democrats run from Green New Deal, fracking bans
Republicans in tight congressional races around the country are working to tie their opponents to the Green New Deal, but Democrats are trying their best to steer clear of the ambitious proposal…
Why the US election could decide battle against climate change
Who occupies the White House for the next four years could play a critical role in the fight against dangerous climate change, experts say. Matt McGrath weighs the likely environmental consequences of the US election…
‘We’ve had so many wins’: why the green movement can overcome climate crisis
Leaded petrol, acid rain, CFCs … the last 50 years of environmental action have shown how civil society can force governments and business to change…
Mario Molina, who discovered ozone destruction, dead at 77
[E&E News subscription required to read this article.] Mario Molina, a chemist whose work on the ozone layer earned him a Nobel Prize in 1995, died yesterday in Mexico City. He was 77…
Biden Considering New White House Office on Climate Change
[Bloomberg subscription required to read this article.] Democrat Joe Biden is considering creating a special White House office led by a climate “czar” to coordinate efforts to fight global warming if he is elected president, according to people familiar with the deliberations…
Biden campaign mulls possible ‘climate czar’ position
Joe Biden’s transition team is considering appointing a climate and energy “czar” to help direct sweeping changes across federal agencies if he wins next month’s election, according to people familiar with the discussions…
Trump and Republicans are putting a Supreme Court seat ahead of America’s recovery
President Trump’s COVID diagnosis is cruelly ironic, coming as it does just as the president and Senate Republicans have decided to impede a national COVID and economic recovery bill and instead push through an unprecedented Supreme Court opening immediately before the election…
The Energy 202: Joe Biden walks political tightrope by saying he does not support the Green New Deal
Joe Biden walked a fine line on the Green New Deal during the first presidential debate – first touting the sweeping climate change plan embraced by liberal activists as a job creator and then disavowing it…
Biden to take a tough line on China, discounting its new climate pledge
Joe Biden won’t be satisfied with China’s huge, new climate change pledge, allies say, and is poised to increase pressure on Beijing not just for its trade practices and military provocations but also for its world-leading carbon emissions…
Changing the climate of presidential debates
When future generations — or simply young people today — look back at the topics of recent U.S. presidential debates, they will be stunned that America’s political journalists ignored climate change, the issue that will overwhelm most others in coming years…
Raising the Sunken Road of American Politics
The bloodiest day in American history was not inflicted by Al Qaeda on 9/11, or the Japanese Empire at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, or Nazi Germany on D-Day June 6, all among the most famous dates in U.S. history. Instead, we did it to ourselves…
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…
Amid Trump economic debacle, Biden’s central message must be his plan for American recovery
The beleaguered economy is far and away most Americans’ main concern. Yet Trump recently held an absurd and dangerous 10-point advantage on the issue…
Denier-in-chief: Trump, COVID and climate change
It is a tale of two worlds. In Real World, the COVID scourge continues to inflict massive human suffering and economic costs on the American people. More than 177,000 Americans have died. More than 5.7 million have been infected…
Slashing emissions by 2050 isn’t enough. We can bring down temperatures now.
Even as President Biden prepares to host a White House global climate summit on Earth Day, April 22, new science shows that the climate crisis is accelerating and demanding greater emergency measures…
Biden must compel China and Russia to act on climate
In recent weeks, a mini-Cold War has threatened to break out, with the American officials of all types becoming increasingly critical of authoritarian actions by both China and Russia…
Biden wants to buy EVs. Are there enough cars?
The Biden administration’s plan to replace the federal government’s fleet of cars and trucks with electric vehicles assembled in the United States could face a roadblock: supply. There are currently 645,047 federal vehicles across the country and fewer than 1% of them are electric, according to the General Services Administration..
Kerry’s struggles with China, more Biden nominees, and oil demand is recovering
Climate envoy John Kerry is struggling to lock down new commitments from China and India ahead of the Biden administration’s summit of global leaders from top emitting countries on Earth Day…
Biden Wants Leaders to Make Climate Commitments for Earth Day
The Biden administration is nearing agreements with Japan, Korea and Canada to bolster carbon emission reduction targets in all four countries ahead of a closely watched summit of global leaders on Earth Day, April 22…
U.S. infrastructure to headline global climate talks
President Biden confronted Republican hostility toward his $2.3 trillion infrastructure package yesterday by declaring it a pillar of his plan to address climate change..
Biden throws weight of US government behind clean energy
[Financial Times subscription required to read this article.] When Barack Obama pumped $90bn into wind turbines, solar panels and batteries as part of his efforts to kickstart the US economy after the 2008 crash, his administration boasted of the “largest single investment in clean energy in history”…
‘Green New Deal’ Leaders See Biden Climate Plans As A Victory, Kind Of
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a blunt initial response to the prospect of a new, climate-focused infrastructure package weighing in at around $2 trillion. “The size of it is disappointing. It’s not enough,” she said…
Biden’s About to Unveil the Biggest Climate Spending Plan in US History
The $2 trillion proposal represents a new political strategy to lead the U.S. into a serious response to global warming, which scientists say will unleash planet-wide catastrophe if we don’t act soon…
‘The world is watching.’ Biden’s climate push starts now
President Biden will unveil his infrastructure plan today in a Pittsburgh union building. But the real backdrop will be decades of presidential failures — both in remaking U.S. infrastructure and in curbing emissions…
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