Opinion | Biden should fight climate change, not trade wars – The Washington Post
President Biden’s flagship climate policy is aimed at saving the planet. But it’s caused a rift across the globe. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last August and now being rolled out, is the biggest climate investment in U.S. history. It…
Biden’s Billions In Green Subsidies Is Sparking A US-Europe Trade Fiasco
Joe Biden’s administration hopes to unleash a green revolution by offering hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to clean energy companies, but the US president’s flagship legislation also threatens to spark a fresh trade war. The Biden administration is…
UK must quit climate-harming energy charter treaty, experts say
Experts have urged the UK to leave the controversial energy charter treaty (ECT), a secret court system that enables fossil fuel companies to sue governments for huge sums over policies that could affect future profits. The European Commission said this…
Biden Puts America First On Electric Cars, Freezing Out Western Allies
A trade war is brewing between the United States and its closest allies. When Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal markets commissioner, pulled out of a summit with US officials just before Christmas, he complained that the agenda ‘no longer gives…
Joe Biden’s green subsidies have left Europe struggling for a response | Lorenzo Marsili
European governments have for many years basked in a sense of climate superiority over the US. We had the most ambitious climate goals; we were the constructive actor at Cop conferences; we had carbon-pricing mechanisms; and since 1990, we have…
Biden, Macron Discuss ‘Super Aggressive’ Climate Tax Law Hurting EU
President Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron toasted the longstanding friendship between the U.S. and France in a gesture of unity capping an official state visit marred by a rift over economic competition. …The Biden administration has billed the official…
Europe warming at twice the global average, UN report warns – Al Jazeera English
UN World Meteorological Organization warns that even ‘well prepared societies are not safe’ from climate change impacts. Europe has warmed at more than twice the global average over the past three decades and experienced a greater temperature rise than any…
By David Wallace-Wells – The New York Times
You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that…
Lights Out: Even The Eiffel Tower Is Chipping In To Save Energy
Lights on the Eiffel Tower will soon be turned off more than an hour earlier at night to save electricity, the Paris mayor announced Tuesday, as Russia’s war in Ukraine deepens an energy crisis in Europe. Mayor Anne Hidalgo said…
America’s ‘Carbon Taxers’ Fade Into Policy Wilderness
The dubiously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a smorgasbord of energy subsidies, health-care policy changes, and tax reform measures, passed to laudatory acclaim from a broad Democratic and centrist coalition in August. One faction that was understandably mum, however, was…
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