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Clean Energy
September 23, 2022
Grace Segers
How the Sprawling Fight Over Permitting Reform Could Capsize Congress
The side deal that Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin cut to pass the Inflation Reduction Act now threatens to be the proximate cause of a government shutdown.
May 26, 2021
Magazine
Benjamin Kunkel
The Climate Case for Property Destruction
Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” urges activists to turn to tougher tactics.
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
March 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Nationalizing the Power Industry Isn’t Radical
The United States has a long history of nationalizing in times of crisis. Bernie Sanders’s publicly owned clean power proposal is actually pretty tame.
May 4, 2017
Emily Atkin
Bret Stephens is digging himself deeper into the climate hole.
March 29, 2017
Emily Atkin
The Trump administration is defending its coal policy by saying “there’s no such thing as clean energy.”
February 4, 2016
Rebecca Leber
President Obama says screw it, and proposes a tax on oil.
November 30, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Bill Gates announced something big on climate change, and is firing back on a GOP talking point in the process.
March 6, 2015
Rebecca Leber
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Who Take Koch Money Can Forget About Winning Iowa
February 26, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Why Republicans Shouldn't Mock Solar Power in 2016
September 30, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Solar Power Could Provide Almost One-Third of World's Electricity Within a Few Decades
So stop making fun of it, OK?
August 21, 2014
Rebecca Leber
All of the U.S.'s New Electricity in July Came from Renewables
March 2, 1938
Morris L. Cooke
All Americans Should Have Access To Affordable Energy
Near the end of the Dust Bowl, The New Republic argued for the creation of a national energy policy
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