Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

Coal is the most obvious and easiest target of the energy transition. Yet world leaders are dragging their feet.

Thanks to Joe Manchin’s stubborn defense of dirty power plants, the president is going to have to find another way to drastically reduce emissions—but it’s not clear how.

Galvanized by news that Senator Joe Manchin might kill the Clean Energy Payment Program, climate activists will fast in front of the White House to demand Congress pass the reconciliation bill’s climate measures.

Vulture funds have spent $1.1 trillion snapping up energy companies over the past decade.

Conservatives have never let an energy crisis go to waste. Liberals shouldn’t, either.

Having the Treasury issue a $1 trillion coin could both resolve debt ceiling problems and pave the way for the kind of spending needed to address the climate emergency.

What does it mean to be a moderate in the era of the climate crisis?

The environmental lawyer’s sentencing shows that laws protecting Chevron are much stronger than laws protecting the planet.

A little more socialism could actually help Democrats pass legislation.

Can meat grown in a laboratory help save the planet? And if it can, what’s standing in our way?

The senator is no mystery. Fossil fuels feature heavily in both his personal and professional finances.

Their tweets said they were concerned. Their actions said otherwise.

Voting down the country’s best shot at climate legislation because you’re worried about inflation is pretty twisted.

A new report on climate change shows the futility of the Biden administration’s electric vehicle dream.

The bill spends a historic amount on climate—and it’s still a travesty.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has made it clear his company is interested in both infrastructure investments and climate investments.

It’s become fashionable to suggest climate activists are too hard on Joe Biden. Being hard on Joe Biden is what got climate spending into the infrastructure package.

The so-called carbon border adjustment mechanism proposed by Democratic Senator Chris Coons this week is going to be pretty hard to implement.

The Global Alliance for a Green New Deal wants sharper emissions cuts, better climate finance from rich countries, ecological justice, and more.

The United States fully deserves to face tariffs for its failure to pass climate legislation.