Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

The president’s last-minute climate announcement doesn’t overshadow the troubling practical tools he’s putting in the hands of his successor.

In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy.

The rush to build new computing and energy infrastructure for artificial intelligence comes with a lot of unintended consequences—especially if this new infrastructure isn’t actually needed.

Liberal politicians and commentators have long insisted that corporations can power the green energy transition and save us from climate chaos. Musk should be the overdue end of that delusion.

Outrage over Trump’s plans to re-withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement is understandable. But the United States has never been a good actor in the international climate space.

No, not in terms of family members’ crimes. In terms of climate change.

Coal is dying because of wokeness, says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Blackrock and Vanguard are filled with environmental radicals.

Tariffs and deregulation may seem like they’re designed to please U.S. automakers. But doubling down on massive gas-guzzlers will make it even harder for American companies to compete abroad.

A bill allowing the executive branch to strip nonprofit status from organizations offering “material support” to terrorists could easily be used to target political enemies—including environmentalists.

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.