Blogs

A curated collection of blog posts from across the web relating to climate change, with new ones added to as important, original articles become available. Contributors include CCR co-founder Mike Shatzkin and experts such as Gordian Raacke, John Englander, Steve Cohen, Richard Heede, Mary Foster Morgan, and Joel Stronberg, as well as friends of CCR such as authors Cyril Christo, Linda Sunshine, Abby Luby, Paige Peterson, and Biddle Duke.

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The Two Joes and What They Mean for US Climate Policy

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 05/18/23

At least one-half of last year’s Washington power couple — Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) — has taken to holding hostage the other Joe’s climate plans and promises. Manchin has vowed to stonewall President Biden’s nominees for executive positions at the Environmental Protection Agency as well as…

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Red States and the Inflation Reduction Act: Environmental Hypocrisy or Just Good Politics?

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 05/04/23

The budget battle brewing in Congress could see the US become a dead-beat debtor if the warring factions can’t come to some arrangement on raising the nation’s debt ceiling. In a proposed tit-for-tat deal, House Speaker McCarthy (R-CA) and members of the Freedom Caucus are looking to claw back the…

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Turning a Pain in the [Coal] Ash into an Asset (2)

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 05/01/23

For economic and environmental reasons, the reign of Old King Coal is coming to an end. The royal’s reign has crossed centuries. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), coal was first used to generate elec-tricity for homes and factories in the 1880s. By 1961, coal had become the major…

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Turning a Pain in the [Coal] Ash into an Asset

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 04/21/23

It appears that the reign of Old King Coal is finally ending because of its impact on the environment and its inability to compete economically with cleaner energy sources, including natural gas and renewables like solar and wind. Coal has powered industries for centuries. Without it, the industrial age was…

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I, ChatGPT: The Case for Climate Action?

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 04/04/23

Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic. You just woke up and realized the nation is running late in putting needed climate protections in place. Discuss. You’d have to have been hiding in a cave over the last 12 months not to have heard about the rapid rise of artificial…

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The Inflation Reduction Act is a New Lease on U.S. Climate Policy: Let’s Not Screw It Up

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 09/12/22

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA or Act) is the most comprehensive climate-related legislation in U.S. history. The Act invests $369 billion dollars for climate and clean energy measures. It also provides billions of dollars to expand low-income health care subsidies and limits drug costs for seniors. The bill rises to…

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West Virginia v. EPA: It’s Dé·jà Vu All Over Again

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 08/08/22

The decision in West Virginia v. EPA is as important for what it doesn’t say as for what it does. Although the Supreme Court left in tack many of EPA’s regulatory powers, it limited its regulatory reach on existing stationary sources of greenhouse gases. Without the need to win over “swing” justices,…

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From Pariah To Partner: The Healing Power Of High Gasoline Prices

By Robert Rapier and 07/26/22

During the campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden said he would make the Saudis “pay the price” for their killing of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. He elaborated: “I would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them. We…

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The Greatest Crisis Facing the Nation May Not Be Climate Change

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 07/08/22

American democracy is broken. What good are answers if the system can’t implement them? Senate Minority Leader McConnell and Chief Justice Roberts are telling us something We the People need to consider as we vote in 2022 and 2024 Before climate change or any other issue of the day is adequately dealt…

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Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 06/22/22

It should come as no surprise that the oil and gas industry is attempting to use the current crises of energy security and inflationary prices to its advantage. To that end, the American Petroleum Institute (API) has released a ten-point plan they deem is responsive to these current events. The…

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Climate Policy in a Republican World

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 06/16/22

In recent days Republicans in the US House of Representatives released the first of what will be a six-part policy platform on energy, climate, and conservation. The strategy was the work of the Energy, Climate, and Conservation Task Force (ECC). The Task Force was established by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy…

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Climate Policy – It’s Not About the Science

By Joel Stronberg, Esq. and 05/18/22

This is the third in a casual series of discussions on today’s politics and what it means for US climate policy. The new series flows from a conversation I had with a colleague in preparation for a podcast in which she would be interviewing me. Politicians have politicised the science…

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