“This article earlier published in Salon” The first new legislation of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Republican Congress — HR1, the Lower Energy Costs Act — is an exorbitantly mislabeled bill. It allows utilities and pipeline companies to build thoroughly unnecessary energy infrastructure, which will be paid for by electricity and gas…

“This article was earlier published in Bloomberg” The Republican effort to demonize clean energy across red-voting America has reached a reckoning. The next six months will determine the success or failure of President Joe Biden’s combined climate and reindustrialization initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). …

“This article earlier published in Salon” Before there was climate denial, there was “Ozone Man.” The Republican Party’s long, messy divorce from reality began in October 1992, when President George H.W. …

“This article earlier published in Salon” One of the surprising climate stories of 2022 was the rapid emergence of hydrogen as an immediate, not just potential, decarbonization technology. Major and unprecedented investments, both from government and the private sector, were initiated this year in Europe, the U.S., China, and Japan…

“This article earlier published in Salon” COP27, the UN climate conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, this year, ended with the dismantling of one climate-diplomacy stone wall — which was very good news — and the construction of another, which most definitely was not. Thirty years of stonewalling by rich…

“This article earlier published in Bloomberg” Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s complicity with Russian President Vladimir Putin in violating a Saudi-US agreement to lower oil prices underscores a simple reality: OPEC+ must go. The oil cartel’s purpose was monopoly pricing. Its side effect has been catastrophic volatility. …

“This article earlier published in Salon” The California Air Resources Board’s recent decision to phase out all sales of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 marked the culmination of a 50-year struggle by CARB to clean up California’s vehicular pollution, which has long been the largest source of the state’s infamous and…

“This article was earlier published in Salon” With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Supreme Court’s decision to curb but not block EPA action on climate, the architecture of Joe Biden’s first-term climate policy is set. The administration can use executive power to limit greenhouse pollution from…

“This article earlier published in Bloomberg” The Democrats’ long-sought tax and energy legislation finally passed by the Senate is a critical breakthrough in America’s effort to meaningfully reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s the good news. …