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How Biden plans to fight climate change
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…
Biden to ‘hit ground running’ as he rejoins Paris climate accords
Joe Biden is set for a flurry of action to combat the climate crisis on his first day as US president by immediately rejoining the Paris climate agreement and blocking the Keystone XL pipeline…
Even With a 50-50 Split, a Biden Administration Senate Could Make Big Strides on Climate
The Georgia victories have given Democrats control of the Senate. But some ardent advocates of climate action are still pessimistic about how much progress can be made…
The Energy 202: Biden’s new hires show West Wing will be center of gravity on climate push
Days before he is set to take office, Joe Biden is setting up a bigger White House climate team than any president before him…
Biden’s defeat of Trump is the most important win since FDR
As the nation awoke the morning after Election Day, reactions seemed to suggest Democrats had lost nearly every office in the land…
Biden’s climate goals get an easier path with Georgia sweep
The slim edge Democrats won in the Senate renews hopes for limited legislation to combat climate change, such as measures to fulfill President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to promote the use of electric vehicles and clean energy…
Will Senate wins unlock Biden’s 100% clean energy agenda?
Democratic control of the U.S. Senate gives President-elect Joe Biden’s efforts to achieve 100% zero-carbon electricity a powerful boost, easing his ability to seat a climate-focused Cabinet and enact legislation to increase spending on green energy…
Daily on Energy: The lawmakers who will shape energy and climate battles in 2021
As the 117th Congress gets underway, climate and energy-related legislation is expected to get more attention than ever as President-elect Joe Biden has laid out aggressive emissions-cutting goals…
US energy: ‘the more ambitious Biden tries to be, the more likely he is to fail’
[Financial Times subscription required to read this article.] Elected on a promise of a $2tn green energy plan, the US president-elect’s ambitions could be curtailed by political reality…
Biden to name Granholm as energy secretary
[The Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] The former Michigan governor is a strong advocate for electric vehicles. She’ll need an experienced deputy to handle nuclear weapons programs…
Biden picks Jennifer Granholm to lead DOE
Former two-term Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who embraced renewable energy as the governor of a Rust Belt state, will be nominated Energy secretary as President-elect Joe Biden prepares…
Biden Picks Former EPA Chief McCarthy as Climate Policy Czar
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Gina McCarthy, Barack Obama’s former EPA chief, to run a special White House office on climate change that will coordinate policy and elevate global warming…
Xi vows modest climate action, but advocates want more
[Subscription required to read this article.] China marked the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Saturday by modestly increasing its commitment to embrace non-fossil energy and carbon efficiency by the end of this decade…
Five myths about the Paris climate agreement
[The Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] Five years ago this month, negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed at a conference near Paris to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
Biden is making the case for deficit spending on climate
President-elect Joe Biden was unveiling his economic team when he made an off-script remark that could reveal as much about his climate plans as any staffing pick. The deficit, Biden said, doesn’t matter. At least for the moment…
The Energy 202: Biden calls climate change an ’emergency.’ Now he’s under pressure to officially declare it one.
Joe Biden often calls climate change an “emergency.” Soon he will have to decide whether to officially declare it one when he takes office.
Early test for Biden: Car emissions rules
As one of his biggest steps to tackle climate change, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to undo President Trump’s rollback of clean car standards and set new auto emissions rules…
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…
Progressives want Biden to sidestep Congress with green ‘national emergency’
Progressive environmentalists are mounting a long-shot bid to get President-elect Joe Biden to go beyond naming a climate czar and declare an environmental national emergency, borrowing a tactic employed by President Donald Trump to fund part of his border wall…
Biden says White House co-operation ‘sincere’
The US President- elect, Joe Biden, says his transition team is getting good cooperation across the board from the Trump administration…
Line 3 is about to come online. What will Biden do?
The embattled Line 3 project could be operational next month, putting pressure on the Biden administration to weigh in as protesters march on the nation’s capital and legal fights heat up…
Pelosi taking a risk in siding with liberals on infrastructure plan
One thing worth considering involving Democrats’ intra-party dispute over infrastructure is whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a risk siding with liberals on doing the more sprawling…
U.S. Senate blueprint is lauded as potentially historic climate legislation
The $3.5 trillion budget framework the Senate narrowly passed early Wednesday sets the stage for a deluge of spending on electric vehicles, renewable power and clean energy initiatives meant to help combat climate change and wean the U.S. off fossil fuels…
As Washington wrestles with climate legislation, scientists warn that time is running out
Hundreds of scientists assembled this week by the United Nations rang the alarm bell as loudly as they ever have on climate change, detailing the intensifying fires, floods and other catastrophes that will continue to worsen until humans dramatically scale back greenhouse gas emissions…
VIDEO: UN Warns Code Red for Climate Change
‘A code-red for humanity.’ That’s the dire warning from a new United Nations report on climate change. CGTN’s Asieh Namdar spoke to Paul Bledsoe from American University’s Center for Environmental Policy about the report…
Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief
The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases must produce clear plans to cut their carbon output drastically, the president of vital UN climate talks has urged, after scientists warned there was only a small chance of escaping the worst ravages of climate breakdown…
Window closing to stop worst effects of climate change
World leaders are rapidly running out of time to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. And without dramatic action, even less ambitious goals — such as checking climate change at 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — soon could be out of reach…
Get a grip: government censured for gaffe after gaffe in run-up to Cop26
Alok Sharma stepped off the plane from Brazil on Friday, the latest stop in a punishing travel schedule that has taken him to 30 countries in seven months, and into the eye of a media storm…
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn
Cutting carbon dioxide is not enough to solve the climate crisis – the world must act swiftly on another powerful greenhouse gas, methane, to halt the rise in global temperatures, experts have warned…
Can Biden’s energy plans withstand the heat of his own party?
Joe Biden entered office with sweeping promises to overhaul America’s energy landscape even though the politics of doing so were never going to be simple. Much has been made of the bipartisan infrastructure bill set to be passed by the Senate in the coming days…
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