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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…
BP plan is chance to shed ‘Beyond Parody’ tag
[Financial Times subscription required to read article.] In the late 1990s when then BP chief executive John Browne claimed he was moving the oil company “Beyond Petroleum”, industry wags dubbed it “Beyond Parody”. They were entirely…
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…
FERC kills anti-net metering plan as PURPA fight rages
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made two decisions yesterday that affect renewable energy, prompting starkly opposing reactions from wind and solar supporters. In a unanimous vote, FERC rejected a contentious petition…
Biden amps up plans for climate, clean energy
Joe Biden is significantly escalating his climate change agenda with a new $2 trillion infrastructure and clean energy plan that would get fossil fuels entirely out of the nation’s electricity supply in less than 15 years. In the most substantial…
Biden aims for ‘sweet spot’ with upgraded $2 trillion clean energy plan
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden outlined his much-anticipated upgraded clean energy agenda on Tuesday, seeming to reach for a political “sweet spot” by proposing to eliminate carbon emissions from power plants by 2035…
Biden promises $2tn green energy and infrastructure plan
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Alabama Votes for Tommy Tuberville, and Democrats Name a Challenger in Maine
Jeff Sessions spent his final days on the campaign trail reiterating his support for President Trump’s agenda, reminding voters of his efforts to curb illegal immigration while attorney general and emphasizing how, as a senator…
Democrats drive toward 100% clean cars by 2035
[E&E subscription required to read this article.] House Democrats want to zero out emissions from all new cars by 2035 — an enormous boon for the climate if the long-term goal is achieved and a significant statement in today’s…
Letter: Shift to clean energy investment offers gains for shareholders
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House Democrats unveil ambitious climate package, steering toward a net-zero economy by 2050
The nation’s automakers would manufacture only electric cars. Utilities would have to stop producing pollution linked to climate change. And the federal government would double its investment in mass transit. All this and more was…
Tackle unemployment, trade, manufacturing and environment: Invest in green infrastructure
More than 42 million workers have filed unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic, the jobless rate is over 13% and minorities are bearing a disproportionate share of the economic pain, just as people have taken to the streets…
HOUSE: Democrats’ green infrastructure bill faces perilous road
[E&E subscription required to read article.] House Democrats today will formally introduce a nearly $500 billion green transportation bill — a big step toward advancing a climate-friendly infrastructure package that advocates have…
Is Crying a Sign of Weakness? Tell That to Churchill
I was struck by Donald Trump’s simplistic and unsympathetic view that crying by men is a sign of “weakness.” In contrast, a recent biography, “Churchill: Walking With Destiny,” by Andrew Roberts, catalogs dozens of times both before…
Here’s how Biden’s infrastructure package will likely tackle climate change
President Joe Biden this week is set to unveil details of a major infrastructure package that’s expected to include record spending on mitigating climate change and accelerating a nationwide transition to clean energy.
Washington’s Most Influential People
THE 250 EXPERTS AND ADVOCATES—OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT—WHO’LL BE SHAPING THE POLICY DEBATES OF THE YEARS TO COME…
Renewable-Energy Backers Want 10-Year Tax Credits in Biden Plan
The clean energy industry is rushing to hitch a ride on President Joe Biden’s emerging infrastructure plan, lobbying for a decade-long extension of coveted tax credits as the White House drafts a recovery proposal that could top $3 trillion…
Government must come clean about the total costs of climate change
The March 18 front-page article “Regulators push Wall Street for disclosure on climate risks” noted that government statistics found 22 extreme weather events last year cost the nation nearly $100 billion…
SEC signals tougher line with oil companies on climate
Regulator forces ConocoPhillips and Occidental to hold shareholder votes on emissions targets. Under the Trump administration, campaigners said the SEC made it easier for companies to throw out shareholder proposals on spurious grounds rather than put them to investor votes…
How the GOP is using Biden’s energy agenda to retake power
Political talking points come and go, but House Republicans have signaled an interest in keeping the focus on one particular issue for as long as possible: President Biden’s energy agenda…
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…
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