Kate Aronoff

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The new piece of legislation is not the final word on greenhouse gas regulation. The Supreme Court has seen to that.

Demanding E.V. parts be made domestically could slow down the energy transition—or, alternatively, fall afoul of free trade policies the United States has worked hard to enact.

Skyrocketing gas and electric bills in the UK have inspired plans for a million-person payment boycott later this year. Will it work?

Democrats everywhere ran on climate in 2020. Now they’re practically running away from it.

Jamaal Bowman's new bill hauls an old tool out of a closet the U.S. hasn't opened in decades.

"Giga Berlin" may be hiring, but it's also using huge quantities of water and alarming locals.

Passing any climate policy through this Senate is a massive achievement. But environmentalists are right to be wary of the drilling concessions Democrats had to give away to get there.

The Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t curb fossil fuels. In fact, it boosts them.

Simply declaring an emergency wouldn’t solve this problem. The Biden administration has long hesitated to back serious policies for a livable planet.

Joe Manchin’s ability to sink climate legislation is getting less attention than the January 6 hearings. But it’s just as dire a sign for democracy.

While everyone was focused on the Supreme Court, there was a string of broken promises and record-breaking heat waves.

In West Virginia v. EPA, the court extended a lifeline to the coal industry and questioned the administrative state itself. But it could have been even worse.

The gas tax holiday is the latest in a string of bad, dead-on-arrival ideas out of the White House.

“Direct pay” would make more efficient use of public money and speed up renewable energy investment. But Manchin doesn’t want that.

A National Refining Company could lower gas prices without giving up on climate targets.

Think tank wonks from the American Enterprise Institute to the Brookings Institution routinely weigh in on high gas prices and the war in Ukraine. Fossil fuel companies give regularly to those think tanks.

Smaller, cash-strapped countries are losing patience with America’s dithering on climate finance.

The New York legislature failed to pass the Build Public Renewables Act before the session closed last week, despite a Democratic supermajority.

Kevin McCarthy and Garrett Graves would like you to believe they’ve a six-point strategy for lowering emissions and fuel prices. Nope!

The Build Public Renewables Act would be the first bill to pass acting on New York’s ambitious climate goals. Will Democrats kill it again?