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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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April 7, 2021
Kate Aronoff
How an Oat Milk Pipeline in New Jersey Explains the Problem With Biden’s Climate Plan
Look beyond the weird uproar over Oatly’s sugar content.
April 5, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Job Killers
New analysis shows the number of workers required per project will soon fall by 20 to 30 percent, even without a transition to renewables.
March 31, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Biden Is Too Worried About the Deficit, Not Worried Enough About Climate Change
His infrastructure plan was supposed to be his big shot at climate legislation. It’s not nearly enough.
March 31, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Don’t Fall for the Carbon Tax Trap
The centrist policy framed as a win-win on fiscal and environmental sustainability is a red herring.
March 29, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Are Climate Progressives Organized Enough to Force Biden’s Hand?
The Green New Deal Network, the Sunrise Movement, Justice Democrats, and others are pushing the administration to spend more money on climate issues.
March 23, 2021
Kate Aronoff
What Are Frank Pallone’s Corporate Donors Getting for Their Money?
The Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is raking in a lot of money from the electric utilities.
March 22, 2021
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Can OPEC Rescue the Planet?
In order to end the fossil fuel era, the United States should join the organization American presidents love to hate.
March 18, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Biden-LBJ Comparisons Are Overblown
The president will have to accomplish a lot more to be truly “transformational.”
March 16, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Gas Price Wars Are Back and More Incoherent Than Ever
The latest front in the GOP’s misinformation war exposes the chaotic nature of the country’s relationship with gasoline.
March 12, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Marco Rubio Is No More Pro-Labor Than He Is Pro-Climate
His tepid op-ed in support of Amazon workers is straight out of the GOP’s climate playbook.
March 10, 2021
Kate Aronoff
This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like
The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.
March 5, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Net-Zero Bluff
Nothing in the history of the oil and gas industry suggests we should take its word for it on climate.
March 3, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Dark Side of Bill Gates’s Climate Techno-Optimism
Innovation can be extremely unequal.
February 27, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Paris Agreement Is Already Outdated
Countries’ pledges to meet climate goals are nowhere near what they need to be.
February 25, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Case for a Permanent Stimulus
Climate change guarantees more crises ahead. Relief measures should kick in automatically.
February 19, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Texas’s Energy Crisis Is America’s Future
The state’s fossil fuel–based power grid failed. The Green New Deal can fix it.
February 16, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Conservatives Are Seriously Accusing Wind Turbines of Killing People in the Texas Blackouts
Tucker Carlson and others are using the deadly storm to attack wind power, but the state’s independent, outdated grid and unreliable natural gas generation are to blame.
January 29, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Can We All Stop Trusting the Market Now?
GameStop is a great example of why we shouldn’t let the Invisible Hand tackle climate change.
January 28, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Here’s What Happens When Every Government Vehicle Is Electric
Joe Biden’s pledge to green the federal fleet could remake transportation—or not. It’s all in the execution.
January 26, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Fossil Fuel Industry Thinks It Will Have a Good Year Under Biden
Without a big push to decarbonize, economic recovery means more business for oil companies.

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