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October 30, 2025
Aaron Regunberg
Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution
In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.
October 27, 2025
Aaron Regunberg
The 21 Republicans Who Flouted Their Voters’ Wishes on Clean Energy
They urged their party not to kill Biden’s clean energy credits, but they voted in favor of it anyway. Guess what a clear majority of their constituents believe?
October 10, 2025
Edith Olmsted
“The Boys Are Fighting”: Team Trump Is Locked in Internal War
Trump officials are fighting over cuts at the Department of Energy.
July 21, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Lisa Murkowski Suddenly Realizes She Got Played on Trump Budget Bill
The Alaska senator clearly thought the leopards would never eat her face.
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
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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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