Our senior editor details the biggest stories she reported on this year.
Climate Crisis
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A More Actively Managed Decline?
Our staff writer reviews 2023 and her work.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
COP28 Punts on Emissions and Migration Challenges
Negotiations went off the rails and barely recovered, if that.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
COP-Out 28
As the debacle in Dubai demonstrates, the oil companies and their OPEC allies are the last people we can trust to solve climate change.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Southwest Virginia Residents Question Nuclear Shift
Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants to build next-generation nuclear plants and data centers. But he won’t tell Virginia residents what he’s doing.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Floating in the Same Direction
New York’s success in linking climate goals, industrial policy, and good-paying union jobs is the emblem of a long-sought political and policy alliance.
Posted inTAP
Blocking Green Transitions
Today on TAP: Upending government policies, the Fed is doing that here, while the high court is doing that in Germany. Who elected these guys? (Nobody.)
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Larry Summers’s Bad Predictions Hurt the Planet
The clean-energy transition is faltering because of unexpectedly high interest rates, which Summers’s demands to slow down the economy helped usher in.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Breaking the Dominion Uniparty in Virginia
Clean Virginia and its opposition to the state’s monopoly utility was a hidden driver of election results.
Posted inCSS Test
TEST Electric Vehicles Labor Uphill
The UAW agreement with the Big Three builds a base of good jobs in EVs, and could help the entire transition. But interest rates are a huge impediment right now.
