Kate Aronoff

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?

The conservatives’ defeat is good news, but the incoming Labor Party’s policies show why climate activists can’t relax even under liberal governments.

The runoff with Jessica Cisneros remains too close to call. The actions of Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, and Jim Clyburn, on the other hand...

Musk’s rant about ESG aligns with a growing conservative movement to denounce sustainable investment as a left-wing plot.

Companies that run the electrical grid have long been accused of anti-competitive and abusive practices. Now a massive coalition of 235 organizations is pressuring the Federal Trade Commission to investigate them.

The shooter’s manifesto makes clear, climate denial and ecofascism are two sides of the same right-wing coin.

It’s tempting to believe high prices are all about price gouging. But the reality is far wilder.

Chuck Schumer’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act shows the perils of trying to pass climate policy to make America more “competitive.”

Clean energy tax credits won’t help the climate if they come with more funding for fossil fuels.