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Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic. She is the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back, and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Kate is also a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, and serves in Dissent’s editorial board.

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September 19, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Shell’s Internal Emails Show Just How Cynical Oil Companies’ Emissions Promises Are
Selling off refineries doesn’t actually reduce emissions. It just passes the buck.
September 15, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Why Resolving Democrats’ Internal War on Climate Policy Will Be Hard
Details on the permitting reform demanded by Senator Manchin remain scant. Many fear it could prove a giveaway to fossil fuel companies.
September 9, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Fed’s Aggressive Rate Hikes Will Hurt Poor Nations Facing Climate Catastrophe
Americans will feel the pain of skyrocketing rates, but so will indebted countries of the global south that are already struggling to withstand global warming–fueled disasters.
September 8, 2022
Kate Aronoff
California Is Finally Confronting the Fossil Fuel Industry
The major oil-producing state has long tried to have it both ways: regulating emissions while allowing companies to drill at will. That’s about to change.
September 2, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid
The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.
September 1, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Rural Energy Is Especially Dirty and in Debt. Enter the Inflation Reduction Act.
Rural co-operatives, serving 42 million people, will soon get money to help them transition off coal.
August 29, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Deranged Demands of the “Anti-ESG” Movement
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the latest Republican to claim woke capitalists are discriminating against fossil fuels.
August 24, 2022
Kate Aronoff
No, the Inflation Reduction Act Did Not “Overturn” West Virginia v. EPA
The new piece of legislation is not the final word on greenhouse gas regulation. The Supreme Court has seen to that.
August 23, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Made-in-America Electric Cars: Good in Theory but a Complicated Mess in Practice
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.
August 17, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Big Energy Bill? Don’t Pay!
Skyrocketing gas and electric bills in the UK have inspired plans for a million-person payment boycott later this year. Will it work?
August 15, 2022
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Whatever Happened to Climate Change on the Campaign Trail?
Democrats everywhere ran on climate in 2020. Now they’re practically running away from it.
August 12, 2022
Kate Aronoff
An Easier Way To Fight Inflation and Climate Change: Price Controls
Jamaal Bowman's new bill hauls an old tool out of a closet the U.S. hasn't opened in decades.
August 9, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Tesla’s German Gigafactory Demonstrates the Difficulty of Delivering Green Industrial Jobs
"Giga Berlin" may be hiring, but it's also using huge quantities of water and alarming locals.
August 8, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Bitter Triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act
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.
August 3, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Manchin Climate Deal Is Both a Big Win and a Deal With the Devil
The Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t curb fossil fuels. In fact, it boosts them.
July 21, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Will Biden Ever Use All His Power to Fight Climate Change?
Simply declaring an emergency wouldn’t solve this problem. The Biden administration has long hesitated to back serious policies for a livable planet.
July 19, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Watching American Democracy Melt
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.
July 1, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Was the Kicker in a Week of Terrible Climate News
While everyone was focused on the Supreme Court, there was a string of broken promises and record-breaking heat waves.
June 30, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The Silver Lining in the Supreme Court’s Decision to Limit Carbon Emission Regulations
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.
June 24, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Inflation Is Scrambling Joe Biden’s Brain
The gas tax holiday is the latest in a string of bad, dead-on-arrival ideas out of the White House.

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