Biden’s Green Steel Deal with the EU is a model for future progress—and it beats anything that came out of Glasgow.
Energy & the Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Strikes Beyond the Barricades at COP26
A wave of strikes in Glasgow exposes the need to center workers in climate policy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Young Climate Activists Fund Global South Projects
The West hasn’t lived up to climate financing pledges for developing countries, so young people raise funds in their own countries to solve local problems.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Nuclear Cop-Out in Glasgow
If the international community can’t make headway on nuclear energy goals at COP26, when, if ever, is it going to happen?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Talking Tariffs and Carbon Emissions
A mechanism designed to induce countries to adopt green technologies is fueling international resistance instead.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What to Do When You Have 20 Million Gig Workers in the Coal Industry
Just transitions for India’s coal communities will be painfully difficult.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Manchin Could Score Carbon Capture Subsidies to Prop Up Coal
In September, Joe Manchin was told carbon capture would need heavy federal subsidies to keep coal running in West Virginia. Now, a supercharged tax credit is in Build Back Better.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Missing Link in the Fight Against the Climate Crisis
Under Trump and in the years of austerity, scientists fled the EPA and other agencies. The race to save the planet requires swift and extensive hiring policies.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What’s Causing the Weird Inflation?
And is there anything Biden can do to make it subside before it adds to the Democrats’ woes in 2022?
Posted inEconomic Policy
What ESG Investing and Ozy Media Have in Common
How much longer can we afford to believe the promise of sustainable investing?
