Kate Aronoff

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.

Bank of America is one of 19 financial institutions joining a Climate Risk Consortium. Hold your applause.

Exporting American gas to fight Russia means locking in methane emissions for years to come.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing cookie-cutter laws that could lock pension funds and taxpayers into losing deals—while propping up coal and other fossil fuel firms.

Will major industries continue to insulate themselves from the climate crisis, or will they be made to address their own contributions to it?

If he is, then he shouldn’t let Manchin stop him.

Not only must they pass Build Back Better. They need to do a lot more to save their midterm chances—and perhaps the planet.

“It’s quite the experience living in the U.S.,” the “Don’t Look Up” director says. “I think all of that filtered into the movie.”

Alienating Russia and China will only make fighting global challenges like climate change and the pandemic harder.