Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

This argument is particularly unconvincing this time around. And it doesn’t offer a realistic prescription for future success.

Responding to every stupid thing Trump does won’t help win the coming battles. Climate advocates in particular need deeper forms of reflection and engagement.

RFK Jr.’s meteoric rise says a lot about Trumpism’s overlap with the online manosphere. But the manosphere’s preoccupation with things like microplastics suggests Democrats may have an opening.

The administration bet that subsidies to rebuild American manufacturing would bring voters back to the Democratic Party while lowering emissions. That bet has failed.

New data suggests environmentally motivated voters might matter more than previously thought. But their priorities haven’t gotten much airtime this election season.

Environmentalists, Amazon, and BP are uniting to fend off a challenge to the state’s recent climate law. But a different, equally right-wing ballot initiative might pass.

From Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, billionaires love meddling in politics. Kicking them to the curb, though, is harder than simply exercising your consumer power.

Reducing foreign governments’ revenue means reducing the money they have to implement climate adaptation and mitigation policies.

Stellantis is struggling, and blaming governments for not supporting electric vehicles. Workers say the problem is the CEOs, instead.

On climate change in particular, wilder talking points are distracting from the small, boring ways a Republican administration could pour money into oil and gas companies’ pockets.

Big Tech and Biden officials still seem to think they can make offset markets work. To say the track record is bad is an understatement.

As Nobel season intersects with hurricane season, we’re getting a potent reminder of the problems with cost-benefit analysis and letting markets direct our lives.

These devastating storms are already political. And those affected by them deserve to hear a plan for the future.

Once, these sorts of corporate pledges were all the rage. Now companies are starting to admit they weren’t serious.

A for-profit insurance industry is a bad first line of defense against natural disasters. There’s a better way.

Already we can draw two big lessons from Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic fallout.

The administration has announced plans to ban vehicles with Chinese software or connectivity-related hardware. U.S.-made cars, though, have their own consumer protection issues.

At the U.N. on Tuesday, the president praised his administration’s climate policies. But he exaggerated a bit.

Fossil fuel companies leak huge quantities of the greenhouse gas. New energy demands from big tech are exacerbating the situation.

The mining giant Rio Tinto is moving ahead with a novel form of lithium extraction in Serbia’s Jadar Valley. Powerful governments want to see it succeed. But critics say it could contaminate drinking water for a third of the population.