Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

The progressive former mayor of Bogotá wants to ban new fossil fuel exploration on day one.

Sarah Bloom Raskin won’t be joining the central bank, thanks to Joe Manchin and the GOP. But the pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell from Democrats and climate activists will only grow.

Speaking at a conference of oil and gas executives last week, Senator Manchin outlined his views on fossil fuels and politics.

At the annual CERAWeek conference, CEOs from companies like Tellurian and Shell argued they should have a bigger seat at the table.

ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ro Khanna, and other Democrats in Congress propose a windfall tax to change that.

At a major annual fossil fuel conference in Houston, the price spike caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has buoyed an industry facing an existential crisis.

Putin’s oligarchy is built on oil and capitalism. Those same forces threaten democracy at home, too.

A new U.N. climate report shows why doubling down on military spending in response to Putin would be a bad idea.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be a windfall for the U.S. oil and gas industry, and one corporate giant can barely contain its glee.

American oil and gas companies want to use the conflict in Ukraine to keep Europe dependent on fossil fuels for decades to come.

Climate change is ravaging the American West. Lawmakers in those states, meanwhile, want to punish any bank that pulls money from the fossil fuel companies contributing to that climate change.

A new report finds that climate-friendly financial institutions have been funding fossil fuel projects to the tune of $38 billion.

The Labour Party has proposed a one-year tax hike to help low-income customers handle rising energy prices. Shell and BP oppose it.

The Competes Act sailed through where Build Back Better floundered. That’s a troubling sign of politicians’ priorities.

Thank the wonks who think financializing nature can save it.

Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing is shaping up to be a contentious fight over the Fed’s power to fight climate change.

Legislation with bipartisan support might bring more natural gas online, further imperiling climate targets.

The FBI’s raid on the Texas congressman’s home is a reminder of how much we normalize ties to foreign (and domestic) oil.

Cutting the Build Back Better Act into “chunks” would be painful, but it may be the last chance in a long time to pass ambitious, enduring climate policy.

Electric vehicles on their own aren’t enough.