Energy & the Environment
Editors' Picks
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Atlantic Surging, Virginia Sinking
Feb 23, 2015Rising sea level in Norfolk threatens the town, the Navy, and a state in denial.
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Markets, States, and the Green Transition
Mar 05, 2015To get renewable energy technologies into broad use, government needs to promote both supply and demand. Markets are too risk-averse.
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While China Picks Winners, Trump Picks Losers
Apr 17, 2018The Trump administration is eager to subsidize coal, but any help for the U.S. solar industry is decried as free-market interference.
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Not a Drill: Oil and Gas Exploration Dead in the Water for Governors
Feb 02, 2018With most coastal chief executives ready to battle to protect their seashores and fisheries, the Trump administration storms into the country’s first energy-environmental showdown.
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Boston’s Rendezvous with Climate Destiny
Jan 05, 2018A coastal winter storm shows one of America’s oldest cities what sea-level rise really means.
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GOP Tax Plan Pulls the Plug on Renewable Energy
Dec 01, 2017Both versions of the GOP tax plan could deal a devastating blow to solar and wind production.
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Nebraska Approves Keystone XL Pipeline, But Fight Continues
Nov 21, 2017The state’s decision is the pipeline’s last regulatory hurdle. Next stop: the courts.
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It Will Take More Than Single-Payer to Make Baltimore Healthy
Nov 20, 2017More than lack of access to health care, the ongoing legacies of Jim Crow diminish African Americans’ health.
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A Climate Policy for the People
Nov 16, 2017To counter the entrenched power of the fossil fuel industry, America needs a popular, mass climate movement.
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Fossil-Free Finance
Nov 13, 2017The surprising successes of the divestment movement as an anti-carbon organizing strategy
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Slip Sliding Away on Nantucket
Oct 26, 2017Year-round residents and wealthy summer visitors lock horns over housing and fighting erosion on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.
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Scott Pruitt’s Dirty War on Clean Water
Oct 10, 2017Pruitt’s aggressive effort to repeal the Clean Water Rule is the latest battle in the Trumpian attack on environmental regulations, democratic norms, and the rule of law.
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In Hurricane Season, Underwater and Behind Bars
Sep 08, 2017The poor, the old, and the disabled seldom seek shelter—because they can’t. And often no one evacuates inmates.
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Puerto Rico’s Double Whammy: Irma and Hedge Funds
Sep 08, 2017The fiscal constraints the island’s bondholders have inflicted will make hurricane recovery very difficult.
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Harvey Is Not a Natural Disaster
Sep 06, 2017Much of Harvey’s devastation could have been avoided with an eye to how communities grow in hurricane-prone areas—and how they respond to the overwhelming needs of their most disadvantaged residents.
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Trump’s Giddy Firetruck Photo-Op Evidence of National Emergency
Aug 30, 2017What will it take for Congress to save the country from this thug?
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Will Harvey Dent Trump’s Climate Change Denial? (Probably Not)
Aug 28, 2017Trump brings his un-presidential touch to the Southeast Texas disaster-in-progress
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