Opposition to a power plant and natural gas pipeline, which snakes through communities of color in Brooklyn, is heating up.
Energy and the Environment
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John Kerry Must Choose: Wall Street or the Planet
Biden’s global climate change envoy shouldn’t count on the banks to end their investments in fossil fuels.
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Why the Usual Suspects Can’t Save the Planet
To achieve global climate justice and arrest climate change, small-scale food producers, Indigenous people, and workers must be at the table.
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A Green Transition for West Virginia
Robert Kuttner in conversation with Robert Pollin
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The Quiet Winner of the Texas Energy Crisis
Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, is poised to profit heavily off Texas’s briefly surging energy prices during the snowstorm. The Biden infrastructure program could be its next conquest.
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Freezing Texans: The Larger Lessons
The culprit is deregulation—not just in Texas and not just in electricity.
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Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.
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The National-Security Case for Decarbonization
Getting off fossil fuels will save a fortune in averted military misadventures.
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The Long and Winding Road to Replacing the Gas Tax
Can Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg convince Congress that road user fees are the next big revenue thing?
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The World Wants the U.S. to Get Serious on Climate
Trump slowed, but did not stop, America’s grappling with the climate crisis. Under Biden, can the nation catch up with the rest of the developed world?
