“A version of this article earlier published in Salon”
As Democrats continue discussions with Senator Manchin about a trimmed-down Build Back Better Act, we should recognize that whatever does get enacted, the Biden Administration is trying to pass a version 2.0 of the Green New Deal.
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Senator Joe Manchin’s sudden declaration that he opposed the President’s Build Back Better initiative sent shockwaves through Washington and the climate movement — although many progressives had previously feared that Manchin would, after weakening many climate vital provisions, turn on the whole project.
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From my perspective, last month’s UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (perhaps better known as COP26) was not an operating room, something designed to treat and cure a dying world; it was more like a clinic, affording a chance for the patient…
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Carl Pope, leading American conservationist, co-author of ‘Climate of Hope’ with Mike Bloomberg and former Executive Director of the Sierra Club, shares his thoughts after day 1 of the UN climate talks:
COP26 got off to stronger than expected start, as India’s Prime Minister Narendra…
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The biggest surprise during the first two days of the pandemic-delayed UN Climate Summit in Glasgow came from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who made a series of bold commitments to green energy. India already ranks third for…
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The Economist calls it “The Energy Shock.” Forbes and the Wall Street Journal go further, resurrecting a term from the 1970s: “Energy Crisis.” The media is hyperventilating.
But what is going on, really? I’d describe it as the first fossil fuel collapse…
A version of this article appeared in Salon
Tip O’Neill is gone — and so is the party system he once described by saying, “All politics is local.” In Congress, the Republicans have replaced it with a party loyalty system which at times resembles a Leninist “party line.” This reality…
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The stakes of the reconciliation package couldn’t be higher. To reach our climate goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must cut our emissions in half by 2030. …
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The most significant images from Hurricane Ida’s devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast are the ones we are not seeing: no refugees huddled in the Superdome, no shots of block after block of New Orleans under water, no miles of overtopped and…
“A version of this article appeared in Bloomberg”
The trillion-dollar spending package that the Senate has passed along to the House is being described as a once-in-a-generation fix for America’s deteriorating infrastructure. It should be viewed as only the first in a long series of such big investments, because Earth’s…
