Opinion | Congress Is Turning Climate Gaslighting Into Law
Late on Saturday, as members of Congress scrambled to strike a deal for legislation that would raise the nation’s debt ceiling, they agreed to a total non sequitur in the text they would release the next day. Following a series…
Opinion | The New Climate Law Is Working. Clean Energy Investments Are Soaring.
Last summer, in a meeting with business and labor leaders as Congress prepared to vote on the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden argued that it would result in “the largest investment ever in clean energy and American energy security…
Ugly Fight Over Climate Bill Exposes Cracks in German Coalition
Tensions in the three-party government have built for months. But the latest sniping is unusually fierce, raising fresh questions of dysfunction. BERLIN — Germany’s coalition government was always an awkward trio of center-left Social Democrats, climate-conscious Greens and pro-business Free…
Opinion | The Americans Who Most Need a Greener Future May Get a Dirtier One
If the United States can figure out how to quickly build more clean energy, places like Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, may have the most to gain. These communities have for decades shouldered a disproportionate burden of fossil…
To Counter China, G7 Countries Borrow Its Economic Playbook
Wealthy democracies rev up an effort to spend trillions on a new climate-friendly energy economy, while stealing away some of China’s manufacturing power. Midway through his face-to-face meeting with President Biden in Indonesia last fall, the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping,…
Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud
One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and LEDs set the sky and mountains aglow. In tiny Gerlach,…
Why Some Countries Find It Hard to Move Away From Fossil Fuels
Ribboned shovel in hand, Prime Minister Keith Rowley joined a ceremonial groundbreaking last month to celebrate Trinidad and Tobago’s first large solar farm project expected to generate power for 42,000 homes. But if anyone thought the project symbolized the twilight…
Opinion | Will Texas Blow Up Its Energy Miracle to Bolster Fossil Fuels?
Because the Texas energy system is so large and central to the American economy, we all have a shared stake in its energy success. When the Texas grid goes down, Atlanta might not get jet fuel. When Texas gas production…
D.O.E.’s Loan Program Has a Lot More Climate Capital to Give
Jigar Shah runs a federal program that suddenly has a gusher of money to lend before the next election. The hotel ballroom was packed before breakfast as Jigar Shah took the stage at the oil and gas industry’s annual conference…
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Is a Huge, Expensive, Controversial Success
The Biden administration’s signature policy achievement, at least so far, has been the Inflation Reduction Act, enacted last August. Despite its deliberately misleading name, the act was mostly a climate bill. Specifically, it sought to fight climate change with industrial…
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