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People Are Talking About 2021

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 2021

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 2021

10/21/21

…COP26

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The Washington Post

What you need to know about the U.N. COP26 climate summit — and why it matters

By Brady Dennis 10/06/21
‘We must get serious. And we must act fast,’ U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said recently, noting the world is ‘seemingly light-years away’ from meeting its climate goals
Forbes

Bold Action Fueled COP26’s Zero-Emission Vehicles Declaration

By Anand Gopal 12/14/21
Last month’s COP26 climate summit generated many pledges and declarations that gained international headlines, but one in particular marks a turning point—the first global pledge…
carbonbrief.org

Guest post: Are the world’s peatlands better protected after COP26?

By Guest 12/07/21
The carbon held in these wetlands has been accumulating for millennia and may be “irrecoverable”. This means that, once released, the carbon in the soil…
Wired

This Is What It Will Take to End Deforestation by 2030

By Jocelyn Timperley 12/02/21
THE WORLD HAS lost a third of its forest since the last ice age, and an estimated 15 percent of global greenhouse gases still come…
Yale Climate Connection

Finance group fails to deliver at COP26

By Michael Northrop 11/29/21
What does it mean that we have already financed 1.5֯ C of warming? In short, that the cumulative impact of the fossil fuel projects banks…
forbes

What The Outcome Of COP26 Means For The Fight Against Climate Change

By Sofia Lotto Persio 11/25/21
While addressing the 26th UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, during the final hours of the event, COP26 President Alok Sharma was overcome with…
The New York Times

Bankers Took Over the Climate Change Summit. That’s Bad For Democracy.

By Christopher Caldwell 11/25/21
The big annual United Nations forum for debate on climate change ended this month in Glasgow in a way that left many attendees bewildered. Money…
The Washington Post

COP26 finally framed climate change as a public health issue

By Maxine Joselow 11/22/21
More than 100 doctors and nurses traveled to Glasgow earlier this month with a message for world leaders: Global warming is a leading threat to…
Just Have a Think

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH? Is that all our leaders provided at COP26?

11/21/21
The COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow was billed as our last chance to limit global warming this century to no more than 1.5 degrees…
The Boston Globe

The 3 a.m. negotiations and an affogato: Inside John Kerry’s deal making at the Glasgow climate conference

By Jess Bidgood 11/20/21
John Kerry was in a passenger van, hurtling under bridges and past the clock towers of this gloomy Scottish city, waiting for Washington to wake…
The Washington Post

Drowning nations disappointed with outcome of U.N. climate summit may have one move left: Lawsuits

By Anthony Faiola 11/17/21
For the Chagossians, the island of Diego Garcia became a paradise lost. In the late 1960s, Britain began forcibly removing the inhabitants of the Indian…
The Washington Post

Egypt will host COP27. Expect criticism over fossil fuels, human rights.

By Maxine Joselow 11/16/21
Those involved in international climate diplomacy are now shifting their attention to Egypt, which was selected to host the 27th U.N. climate summit, or COP27,…
Axios

1 big thing: Making sense of the Glasgow deal

By Ben Geman and Andrew Freedman 11/15/21
The mixed, messy COP26 outcome won't rein in global warming — summit texts and pledges simply can't do that — but it offered reasons for…
The Washington Post

‘It is not enough’: World leaders react to COP26 climate agreement

By Steven Mufson and Annabelle Timsit 11/14/21
Many call on countries to move faster to curb greenhouse gas emissions and help nations suffering the most from climate change, after last-minute moves weakened…
The Washington Post

Five big takeaways from COP26

By Maxine Joselow 11/14/21
Good morning! We're back in Washington after two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, covering COP26, the United Nations climate conference. We regret that we didn't bring…
The Conversation

Five things you need to know about the Glasgow Climate Pact

By Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin 11/14/21
The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries.
Reuters

U.N. climate summit reaches carbon markets deal

By Jake Spring and Kate Abnett 11/14/21
Negotiators closed a deal setting rules for carbon markets at the United NationsCOP26 climate talks on Saturday, potentially unlocking trillions of dollars for protecting forests,…
The Washington Post

During climate negotiations at COP26, extreme weather was rampant around the world

By Kasha Patel 11/13/21
As nations made ambitious and sometimes underwhelming pledges, their constituents at home were dealing with extreme heat, floods and more.
The Washington Post

After going dark on the climate stage, United States reclaims leadership role at COP26

By Steven Mufson and Annabelle Timsit 11/13/21
Special climate envoy John Kerry launched initiatives and battled critics during the summit in Glasgow.
Axios

COP26 climate deal calls for historic shift from fossil fuels

By Andrew Freedman 11/13/21
International negotiators approved a climate agreement at the COP26 summit Saturday that calls for reductions in coal and fossil fuel use and transition to renewables…
The Washington Post

At COP26, nations speed climate action but leave world still headed for dangerous warming

By Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan 11/13/21
As negotiators praised the compromise, the minister from the low-lying Maldives noted, “It will be too late” for her nation and others most vulnerable to…
Los Angeles Times

What the U.N. summit achieved — and didn’t

By Anna M. Phillips 11/13/21
Global leaders can point to signs of real progress in the climate agreement reached Saturday. But the Earth is still headed for a dangerous level…
Forbes

Leaked ‘Friends Of COP’ Letter Demands Strong Action As Weaker Climate Draft Released

By Felicia Jackson 11/12/21
As a new cover decision, or draft agreement, from COP26 appears to have weakened its language on halting fossil fuel use, a leaked letter from…
The New York Times

Who Has The Most Historical Responsibility for Climate Change?

By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich 11/12/21
One of the biggest fights at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow is whether — and how — the world’s wealthiest nations, which are…
The New York Times

COP26 Live Updates: Climate Talks in Crucial Last Days

11/11/21
Negotiators are racing to reach an agreement by Friday on tougher action to avert catastrophic climate change. A joint pledge by the U.S. and China…
The New York Times

What Happened at COP26 on Wednesday: China and U.S. Say They’ll ‘Enhance’ Climate Ambition

By Lisa Friedman, Marc Santora and Brad Plumer 11/10/21
The countries vowed to do more to cut greenhouse gases in an agreement that commits Beijing to addressing its methane emissions.
The Nation

“Nice” Isn’t Going to Save the Planet

By Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt 11/10/21
“No matter what he says today,” climate activist Lauren MacDonald said through tears in her opening lines at the TED Countdown panel in Edinburgh. “Remember,…
The New York Times

6 Automakers and 30 Countries Say They’ll Phase Out Gasoline Car Sales

By Brad Plumer and Hiroko Tabuchi 11/09/21
Ford, G.M. and Mercedes agreed to work toward selling only zero-emissions vehicles by 2040. But Toyota, Volkswagen and Nissan-Renault did not join the pledge.
The Washington Post

Climate change brings irreversible harm to poor countries. At COP26, rich ones face pressure to foot the bill.

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis 11/08/21
The people hit hardest by climate change did the least to cause it. Some want compensation for what they’ve lost.
NPR

This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold

By Lauren Sommer 11/08/21
Despite new pledges to cut emissions, the world is not on track to hit a key climate change target of limiting warming. Scientists warn a…
Scientific American

Why the U.S. Didn’t Join 40 Other Countries in Pledge to End Coal

By Benjamin Storrow 11/08/21
The Biden administration arrived this month at international climate talks in Scotland with the intent to prove the United States was again ready to lead…
The Washington Post

Countries’ climate pledges built on flawed data, Post investigation finds

By Chris Mooney and others 11/07/21
Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe. The 285-page document suggests that…
The New Statesman

Why climate migrants are missing from the debate at Cop26

By Patrick Mulholland 11/05/21
Developed countries must “strengthen their commitments” to the increasing number of people escaping the adverse effects of climate change, the UN Network on Migration has…
The Weather Channel

Little Amal, a Syrian Refugee Puppet, to Grace COP26 from November 9 to 11

By IANS 11/05/21
Little Amal, a 3.5m puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, will visit the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) from November 9 to 11.…
The Washington Post

Real progress at the COP26 or ‘blah, blah, blah’?

By Brady Dennis 11/05/21
Inside a sprawling conference center in Glasgow, Scotland, this week, world leaders virtually tripped over one another to announce new promises aimed at tackling climate…
Los Angeles Times

Their warning: Stop destroying the planet

By Emily Baumgaertner, Kate Linthicum and Parth M.N. 11/05/21
After the cops showed up in an urban forest and detained Manisha Dhinde, one of them asked her: “What is this fashion of protesting for…
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09/07/21

…Biden’s 3.5 trillion dollar Build Back Better plan

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The New York Times

Calling ‘Code Red’ on Climate, Biden Pushes for Infrastructure Plan

By Katie Rogers and Juliet Macur 09/07/21
“The nation and the world are in peril,” the president said during a stop in a hard-hit borough of New York City. “And that’s not hyperbole. That is a fact.”
Greenwire

Greens to rally with Biden officials for ‘Build Back Better’

By Nick Sobczyk 04/20/22
More than 20 environmental and labor groups will hold events in dozens of cities around the country Saturday to push Democrats in Congress to pass…
Politico Pro

Gina McCarthy outlines new playbook to sell holdouts on ‘BBB’

By Robin Bravender 03/24/22
Backers of the Biden administration’s sweeping climate and social spending legislation need a new strategy to sell their plan to skeptics, the White House climate…
Scientific American

To Fully Mitigate Climate Change, We Need to Curb Methane Emissions

By Sean Casten 01/21/22
It’s been more than two months since the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act—a bill that would make desperately needed and decades-overdue…
The New York Times

‘Build Back Better’ hit a wall, but climate action could move forward

By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman 01/20/22
Some Democrats want to forge ahead with a stand-alone climate bill, but their solution could mean abandoning other parts of President Biden’s agenda.
The Washington Post

Opinion: West Virginia’s coal miners just made Joe Manchin’s life a lot harder

By Greg Sargent 01/10/22
For months, Sen. Joe Manchin III has sold his opposition to the Build Back Better proposal as driven uniformly by a brave and hardheaded assessment…
Gizmodo

We’ll Believe It When We See It, Joe

By Brian Kahn 01/04/22
A few weeks after nuking the Democratic Build Back Better Agenda live on Fox News, Sen. Joe Manchin would like you to know the climate…
The New York Times

Biden ‘over-promised and under-delivered’ on climate

By Lisa Friedman 01/04/22
As the new year opens, President Biden faces an increasingly narrow path to fulfill his ambitious goal of slashing the greenhouse gases generated by the…
The Atlantic

We’re Heading Toward a Very American Climate Tragedy

By Robinson Meyer 12/22/21
If Democrats fail to pass a climate policy, they will all but guarantee that the world will warm a dangerous degree and that the U.S.…
The New York Times

Good morning. Joe Manchin’s history suggested he could vote for Build Back Better. Why didn’t he?

By David Leonhardt 12/22/21
During the Trump administration, Manchin voted against both the attempts to repeal Obamacare and a tax cut skewed toward the rich. Earlier this year, he…
The New York Times

It’s Been a Bad Week for Build Back Better. Here’s What It Means.

By Lisa Friedman 12/22/21
Senator Joe Manchin III may have single-handedly torpedoed President Biden’s climate change and social spending bill this week when he announced that he would not…
Axios

1 big thing: Visualizing the stakes of Build Back Better

By Ben German and Andrew Freedman 12/21/21
Future U.S. greenhouse gas emissions under existing policies and Build Back Better
Business Insider India

Joe Manchin is costing the US economy $60 billion by tanking Build Back Better, Goldman Sachs says

By Ben Winck and Andy Kiersz 12/21/21
Sen. Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better plan is starving the country about $60 billion in gross domestic product, Insider calculates based on…
Reuters

U.S. coal miners’ union asks Manchin to ‘revisit’ opposition to spending bill

By Valerie Volcovici 12/21/21
The main union representing U.S. coal miners urged West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to reconsider his opposition to the Biden administration's $1.75 trillion climate and…
Yahoo

Manchin killing Build Back Better is ‘devastating’ to climate change action, experts say

By Ben Adler 12/21/21
When Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced on Fox News on Sunday that he won’t vote for the current version of Build Back Better, experts predicted…
The New York Times

Behind Manchin’s opposition, a long history of fighting climate measures

By Jonathan Weisman and Lisa Friedman 12/20/21
Senator Joe Manchin III noted climate policy when he said he would vote against the Build Back Better Act. In his life and career, West…
CNN

Biden’s Build Back Better plan is on ice. Here’s what that means for you

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco 12/20/21
No more monthly payments for tens of millions of families. No universal pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds. No health insurance for more than 2 million…
TIME

Nobody Should Be Surprised Joe Manchin Killed Biden’s Agenda

By Philip Elliott 12/20/21
And just like that, Build Back Better died. With apologies to the Sex and the City spinoff, that was the effect of Sen. Joe Manchin’s…
The Washington Post

The White House’s extraordinary, furious statement about Joe Manchin

By Amber Phillips 12/19/21
If Sen. Joe Manchin III can’t support President Biden’s spending agenda, it’s news to the White House, apparently.
Reuters

Biden signals Build Back Better may be delayed until next year

By Steve Holland and Eric Beech 12/16/21
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to acknowledge that his Build Back Better spending bill may not pass Congress in the remaining weeks of…
The Washington Post

Cutting emissions from buildings is a key part of ‘building back better’

By Maxine Joselow with research by Alexandra Ellerbeck 12/10/21
In climate policy circles, it's popular to focus on the need to reduce emissions from transportation. That means we often hear about electric vehicles as…
The Hill

Democrats wrangle to keep climate priorities in spending bill

By Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk 12/01/21
Democrats are clamoring to keep their climate priorities in the spending bill passed by the House as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) pushes for adjustments.
The Washington Post

How the House spending bill addresses climate change

By Tik Root and Dino Grandoni 11/19/21
The majority of the funding, totaling more than $300 billion, would provide tax incentives for expanding clean energy generation, electric vehicles, transmission lines and other…
The Washington Post

House passes roughly $2 trillion spending package

By Tony Romm 11/19/21
Republicans delayed the vote, but Democrats pushed ahead on one of Biden’s key priorities. The battle now moves to the Senate.
The Washington Post

House to vote Friday on spending package

By Tony Romm, Paul Kane and Marianna Sotomayor 11/18/21
Democrats worked to secure a final vote on the bill, which would expand social programs and provide billions to fight climate change
The Washington Post

House eyes vote this week on $2 trillion spending plan

By Tony Romm and Marianna Sotomayor 11/16/21
The vote comes as Democrats prepare to confront a series of additional challenges, including a new, potential December 15 debt ceiling deadline
The Washington Post

Congress approves $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, sending measure to Biden for enactment

By Tony Romm and Marianna Sotomayor 11/06/21
House lawmakers late Friday adopted a roughly $1.2 trillion measure to improve the country’s roads, bridges, pipes, ports and Internet connections, overcoming their own internecine…
HuffPost

Joe Manchin Not On Board With Build Back Better Legislation Yet

By Igor Bobic and Arthur Delaney 11/01/21
The senator chided progressives for holding the bipartisan infrastructure bill "hostage" in return for his support for the social spending and climate measure.
The New Yorker

As Biden Speaks at the Glasgow Climate Summit, Manchin Muddles the Message

By Bill McKibben 11/01/21
Monday should have been a day of great triumph for America, marking its emergence from the Trump years.
The Atlantic

Biden’s Amazing, Disappointing Climate Triumph

By Robinson Meyer 10/29/21
It has to pass, it has to pass, it has to pass. It has to pass! It has to pass. It has to pass. IT…
Utility Dive

House passes Build Back Better, tees up Senate vote on funding for climate, clean energy and electric vehicles

By Ethan Howland 10/29/21
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the roughly $1.9 trillion Build Back Better legislation Friday and sent it to the Senate. “The legislation finally moves…
The Washington Post

Biden raises the stakes with the biggest gamble of his presidency for his agenda

By Matt Viser and Sean Sullivan 10/28/21
President Biden entered a caucus meeting of Democrats early Thursday, told them he wanted to speak from the heart, and then made one of the…
The New York Times

Live Updates: Biden Implores Democrats to Embrace $1.85 Trillion Climate and Safety Net Plan

10/28/21
President Biden went to the Capitol to lobby for the revised package, telling Democrats in private, “We badly need a vote.” The plan leaves out…
The Washington Post

Paid leave at risk of falling out of spending package as Biden nears deal with Manchin and Sinema

By Tony Romm, Mike DeBonis and Marianna Sotomayor 10/27/21
The White House intensified meetings with 2 senators as they raced to resolve a number of issues in giant tax-and-spending measure.
Earth Institute at Columbia University

President Biden’s Silk Purse: Young People Will Sit in Judgment

By James E. Hansen 10/26/21
My talk described the danger of climate change and the fundamental actions needed to avert that danger. The existential threat is the potential to initiate…
HEATED

How Joe Manchin controls the climate

By Emily Atkin 10/25/21
Senator Joe Manchin calls climate change a “massive” and “real” problem that poses “a serious threat to our citizens, to our economy, to our environment,…
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08/09/21

…IPCC’s latest report cautioning that the world risks increasingly catastrophic impacts in the absence of rapid greenhouse gas reductions

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Los Angeles Times

The scary new climate report means fossil fuel use needs to start falling, fast

By Sammy Roth, Russ Mitchell and Sam Dean 08/09/21
Scientists have said that zeroing out planet-warming emissions by midcentury is needed to stave off the worst consequences of the climate crisis. But there’s a giant gap between the many companies that have pledged to…
Greentech Media

Why This IPCC Climate Report Is Different

By Stephen Lacey 08/30/21
Thousands of scientists have spent decades pouring over every measurement and research report known. The findings are clearer than ever: It is “virtually certain” that the…
The New York Times

In Climate Coverage, Reporting the Grim Facts, but Also the Fight

By Katie Van Syckle 08/27/21
The United Nations recently released a major scientific report concluding that a hotter future is certain but that there is still a chance to prevent…
Yale Climate Connections

Cartoonists’ ‘Code Red’ caricatures of new IPCC report

By Michael Svoboda 08/24/21
The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, described by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as “code red for humanity,”…
Chicago Tribune

Climate change a ‘code red for humanity’ — and the Great Lakes

By The Editorial Board 08/17/21
A recent report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a 4,000-page document viewed as the most comprehensive look at climate ever…
The New York Times

Finding the Will to Stave Off a Darker Future

By The Editorial Board 08/14/21
In June 1988 a NASA scientist, Dr. James Hansen, appeared on a very hot day in Washington and told a group of powerful senators that…
CLIMATE WIRE

Climate scientists have a message for the world: Don’t give up

By Chelsea Harvey 08/13/21
Climate change is real, it’s happening now, and it’s wreaking havoc across the world. So said a much-anticipated report released Monday by the U.N. Intergovernmental…
CNN

Scientists say this invisible gas could seal our fate on climate change

By Rachel Ramirez 08/12/21
Slashing carbon dioxide emissions is critical to ending the climate crisis. But, for the first time, the UN climate change report emphasized the need to…
THE HILL

How IPCC went from ‘not proven’ that we cause climate change in 1990 to ‘we are guilty’ in 2021

By Ben Santer 08/12/21
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advises the world’s governments on climate change science, impacts and response strategies, and recently released their latest report…
Newsweek Magazine

‘Code Red’ Climate Activism Art Around the World

By Kathleen Rellihan 08/12/21
"Engaging with art can make the world felt. And this feeling spurs thinking, connection and even action," says Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic climate-focused artist, about the…
CLIMATE HOME NEWS

Five takeaways from the IPCC’s 2021 climate science report

By Isabelle Gerretsen 08/09/21
The UN’s climate science body has published a major report on the physical changes happening and projected to occur as a result of human activity,…
The Guardian

Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, says IPCC report

By Damian Carrington 08/09/21
“​​It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report. The climate crisis is unequivocally caused…
Independent

IPCC report: Greta Thunberg says world ‘must be brave’ to overcome climate emergency

By Rory Sullivan 08/09/21
The world must be “brave” in confronting the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has said after the publication of a comprehensive new UN report. The environmental…
The Boston Globe

Climate change has reached an unprecedented level, with little time to act, a stark new UN report finds

By Sabrina Shankman 08/09/21
Earth’s climate is warming at a faster rate than previously thought, and with greater and more widespread consequences, according to a landmark report by the…
The Guardian

First Thing: Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible, says IPCC in starkest warning yet

By Jedidajah Otte 08/09/21
Widespread devastation and extreme weather are likely to become inevitable within the next two decades thanks to human behaviour causing rising temperatures, the International Panel…
The New York Times

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.

By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain 08/09/21
Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years,…
The Washington Post

Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds

By Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan 08/09/21
More than three decades ago, a collection of scientists assembled by the United Nations first warned that humans were fueling a dangerous greenhouse effect and…
The Washington Post

The climate news is about to get a lot worse

By Ishaan Tharoor 08/06/21
If the headlines don’t already feel rather apocalyptic, they are about to get worse. On Monday, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will…
skepticalscience

Why the IPCC climate reports are so important

By ClimateAdam 08/06/21
The intergovernmental panel on climate change releases the definitive reports on global warming, with the next major report coming out in 2021 and 2022. But…
Scientific American

New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather and Rising Seas

By Jeff Tollefson 08/06/21
The United Nations is poised to release the most confident and comprehensive assessment yet of global warming, including detailed estimates of how continued greenhouse-gas emissions…
BBC

Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report

By Matt McGrath 07/26/21
Against a backdrop of fires and floods, researchers are meeting virtually to finalise a key climate science study. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
Scientific American

What to Expect from the Next Major Global Climate Report

By Sara Schonhardt 07/22/21
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change grabbed the world’s attention in 2018 when it released a sobering report that warned—in no uncertain terms—world leaders needed…
Inside Climate News

Do Leaked Climate Reports Help or Hurt Public Understanding of Global Warming?

By Bob Berwyn 07/21/21
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has always been a lightning rod for controversy. Since its creation in 1988, conspiracy theorists and politicians funded by…
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06/02/21

…what a bad month oil seems to be having

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Big oil had a bad month

06/02/21

The Washington Post

Why has Andy Karsner frightened the mighty ExxonMobil?

By Steven Mufson 06/20/21
The oil giant spent millions of dollars to keep Karsner, a Republican who favors renewable energy, off the company’s board of directors. It failed. Clay…
Bloomberg Green

The Man Who Beat Shell: How an Unknown Lawyer Won Historic Suit

By Diederik Baazil and Hugo Miller 06/16/21
Royal Dutch Shell Plc hired a team of pricey lawyers for its defense against environmental activists in a Dutch court, and lost. A decade-old, $22…
The Wall Street Journal

Keystone XL Oil Project Abandoned by Developer

By Timothy Puko and Vipal Monga 06/09/21
Canada’s TC Energy Corp. TRP +0.19% and the Albertan provincial government said Wednesday they would scuttle the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, bringing to an end a yearslong controversy over…
Treehugger

Big Oil’s Bad Week Was Good News for National Oil Companies

By Lloyd Alter 06/07/21
The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently issued a report, Net-Zero by 2050, that essentially says there should be no more approvals of oil, gas, or…
The Atlantic

Wall Street’s Skirmish With Exxon Is ‘Monumental’

By Robinson Meyer 06/02/21
It can be difficult even to say who controls a company. Most large corporations are led by a chief executive officer, who is hired and…
BBC

Alaska: Biden to suspend Trump Arctic drilling leases

06/02/21
US President Joe Biden's administration will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending an environmental review.
PROPUBLICA

We Reported on How California Rarely Cracks Down on Oil Companies. Now Regulators Have Fined One Company $1.5 Million

By Janet Wilson 06/02/21
A south Los Angeles oil producer has been ordered by California’s top oil regulator to pay almost $1.5 million in fines for nearly 600 violations…
THE HILL

Third climate advocate wins seat on Exxon board

By Mychael Schnell 06/02/21
A third climate advocate has secured a seat on the board of Exxon Mobil Corp. Alexander Karsner, a private equity investor from Engine No. 1,…
parekhpayal.medium.com

Building the climate movement in the “Shell” of the Dutch court decision

By Payal Parekh 06/01/21
The historic ruling by the Dutch court that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030 relative to 2019 is being celebrated…
The New York Times

Biden Suspends Drilling Leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

By Coral Davenport, Henry Fountain, and Lisa Friedman 06/01/21
The decision blocks, for now, oil and gas drilling in one of the largest tracts of undeveloped wilderness in the United States...
amny

The little engine that could, and the oil giant that couldn’t

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Jennifer Hiller 05/30/21
Last December, when a week-old hedge fund named Engine No. 1 challenged Exxon Mobil to change its ways, laughter echoed through Wall Street circles, from…
REUTERS

BlackRock goes against BP board in climate resolution vote

By Ron Bousso and Simon Jessop 05/29/21
The world’s biggest asset manager and top BP (BP.L) investor BlackRock (BLK.N) said on Friday it had backed a shareholder resolution calling for faster climate…
Rolling Stone

A Court Ruled Shell Is Liable for Its Contributions to Climate Change. What Happens Now?

By Antonia Juhasz 05/27/21
In a ruling designed to have far-reaching effects on the world’s largest oil companies, a Dutch court has held Royal Dutch Shell liable for its…
The Washington Post

A bad day for Big Oil

By Steven Mufson 05/27/21
ExxonMobil shareholders voted Wednesday to install at least two new independent directors to the company’s board, a resounding defeat for chief executive Darren Woods and…
Bloomberg Green

Shell Loses Climate Case That May Set Precedent for Big Oil

By Diederik Baazil, Hugo Miller, and Laura Hurst 05/26/21
Royal Dutch Shell Plc was ordered by a Dutch court to slash its emissions harder and faster than planned, a ruling that could have far-reaching…
The Guardian

No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says world energy body

By Fiona Harvey 05/18/21
Exploitation and development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year and no new coal-fired power stations can be built if the world…
05/31/21

…what a bad week oil seems to be having

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The Economist

A bad week for oil

By Catherine Brahic 05/31/21
All three events happened on Wednesday. ExxonMobil suffered a stunning defeat as an activist hedge fund successfully placed two climate-friendly directors on its board. Chevron’s shareholders voted that the company should reduce “scope 3” emissions,…
The Guardian

‘Black Wednesday’ for big oil as courtrooms and boardrooms turn on industry

By Jillian Ambrose 05/29/21
The world’s patience with the fossil fuel industry is wearing thin. This was the stark message delivered to major international oil companies this week in…
The Economist

ExxonMobil loses a proxy fight with green investors

05/27/21
“The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of petroleum.” That…
climatecrocks.com

“A Turning Point for Big Oil” – Recapping a Historic Moment

By Brad Johnson 05/27/21
Yesterday seemed historic in hammering home the urgency of climate action to Big Oil Boardrooms...
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Shell, Exxon Decisions Highlight Rethink in Energy Investment

By Anna Hirtenstein 05/27/21
The development of climate change as a factor for investors to consider is shaking the investment world. The Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Shell…
Inside Climate News

ExxonMobil Shareholders to Company: We Want a Different Approach to Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz 05/26/21
ExxonMobil has spent the last six months locked in a battle for its future, ever since a small investment firm launched a long-shot bid to…
Inside Climate News

Dutch Court Gives Shell Nine Years to Cut Its Carbon Emissions by 45 Percent from 2019 Levels

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino 05/26/21
The Hague District Court verdict is only legally binding in the Netherlands. But the ruling could influence dozens of similar cases around the world, including…
The New Yorker

The Climate Crisis

05/26/21
In what may be the most cataclysmic day so far for the traditional fossil-fuel industry, a remarkable set of shareholder votes and court rulings have…
NPR

A Tiny Fund Has Scored A Historic Win Against ExxonMobil Over The Future Of Oil

By Camila Domonoske 05/26/21
In a dramatic boardroom battle on Wednesday, a tiny hedge fund fought with the energy giant ExxonMobil over the future of the oil and gas…
HEATED

Breaking: A climate upheaval at Exxon

By Emily Atkin 05/26/21
At the annual shareholder meeting, an activist investor that owns only about 0.02% of the oil giant’s stock secured at least two seats on the…
The Washington Post

The fight for the soul – and the future – of ExxonMobil

By Steven Mufson 05/22/21
A group of insurgent investors backed by the three largest pension funds in America is trying to force ExxonMobil to take climate change much more…
The Economist

Shareholders are pushing ExxonMobil to go green

02/06/21
Two american giants, spooked by a crisis that has roiled oil markets, fall into each other’s arms. The tie-up strings back together bits of Standard…
04/12/21

…earth day and the climate summit

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So

By Mark Fischetti 04/12/21
An emergency is a serious situation that requires immediate action. When someone calls 911 because they can’t breathe, that’s an emergency. When someone stumbles on the sidewalk because their chest is pounding and their lips…
Yale Climate Connections

Revitalized U.S. urgency on climate change and national security

By Samantha Harrington 05/07/21
The Biden administration’s national security concerns over climate change mark a sharp shift from the Trump administration approach.
New York Times

After the summit: Biden’s to-do list

By Somini Sengupta 04/28/21
So yes, that White House global summit happened. President Biden used the occasion to announce that his administration would seek to rapidly reduce the planet-warming…
Washington Post

Biden ushers in a new era of climate geopolitics

By Ishaan Tharoor 04/23/21
If former president Donald Trump were still in the White House, none of this would be happening. Trump was wholly indifferent to the scientific consensus…
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The Climate Action Tracker

04/23/21
On 22-23 April, US president Joe Biden held a Climate Summit where over 40 world leaders focussed on climate change. The US, Japan and Canada…
WSJ

Climate Summit: How Do You Cut 50% of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions by 2030?

By Ana Rivas and Juanje Gomez 04/23/21
The Biden administration on Thursday announced a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions to half their 2005 levels by 2030. The plan calls for action…
The U.S. Department of State

Event: Leaders Summit on Climate

The U.S. Department of State 04/22/21
View the full schedule of events. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry join President Joe Biden, Vice President…
The New York Times

Live Updates: Biden, Kicking Off Summit, Says U.S. ‘Has Resolved to Take Action’ on Climate Change

The New York Times 04/22/21
President Biden committed the United States to cutting emissions by half by the end of the decade at a virtual Earth Day summit.
The Carbon Brief

The Carbon Brief Profile: United States

By Josh Gabbatiss 04/22/21
In the latest article in a series on the world’s key emitters Carbon Brief looks at the US, which, to date, has contributed more to…
The Gaurdian

101 Nobel laureates call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

Matthew Taylor 04/21/21
A hundred and one Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, are calling for governments around the world to sign up to a fossil fuel non-proliferation…
Scientific American

Biden’s Climate Summit Will Be an International Chess Match

By Sara Schonhardt 04/21/21
The world’s top emitters will convene tomorrow—and the setting might as well be a virtual chess board. President Biden’s climate summit will gather three dozen…
The Hill

Kerry: China described climate change as ‘crisis’ for the first time

Zack Budryk 04/21/21
U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry emphasized what he said was progress on negotiating with China on carbon emissions Wednesday, saying Beijing had described climate change…
The New York Times

Seeking Cooperation on Climate, U.S. Faces Friction With China

By Steven Lee Myers and Chris Buckley. 04/15/21
John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, is pressing China to do more to address global warming. But he faces an emboldened Beijing leadership that thinks…
POLITICO

Big powers face off in ‘high adrenaline’ game of climate chicken

By Karl Mathiesen, Stuart Lau and Kalina Oroschakoff. 04/15/21
It's crunch time for the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. Next Thursday and Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden will host 40 world leaders at a…
Reuters

U.S. seeks to polish tarnished reputation with new climate change pledges

By Valerie Volcovici and Kate Abnett. 04/15/21
The United States hopes to restore its shattered credibility when it hosts a climate change summit next week by pledging to cut its greenhouse emissions…
Los Angeles Times

At climate summit, Biden will try to reassure a skeptical world that the U.S. is back

By Anna M. Phillips and Chris Megerian. 04/14/21
All eyes are focused on the new goal he sets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — a goal that may depend on a…
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Biden’s Earth Day Summit Is a Crucial Opportunity for Climate Action

By Rachel Cleetus and Erika Spanger-Siegfried. 04/14/21
Science has a stark message for us all. In this decade, we could lose the fight for the Paris Agreement climate goals, with profound consequences…
Rolling Stone

Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

By Jeff Goodell. 04/14/21
The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages…
THE GUARDIAN

The climate emergency is here. The media needs to act like it

By Guardian staff. 04/12/21
When the world shut down last year, there was one big beneficiary: the planet. With travel ground to a halt, emissions fell 10% in 2020.…
03/23/21

…Biden’s New Infrastructure Bill

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The New York Times

Biden’s Recovery Plan Bets Big on Clean Energy

By Lisa Friedman and Jim Tankersley 03/23/21
The president’s plan, worth up to $4 trillion, represents a fundamental shift in the way Democrats talk about tackling climate change: It’s no longer a side issue.
The Washington Post

Where President Biden’s economic plan stands: From taxes to climate policy to Medicare to immigration

By Jeff Stein, Rachel Roubein and Marianna Sotomayor 10/22/21
Even as negotiations over President Biden’s economic package continue, Democratic officials have started signaling which parts of the White House agenda could be cut from…
Los Angeles Times

Joe Manchin is trying to kill Biden’s biggest climate policy

By Sammy Roth 10/21/21
For the first time in a decade, Congress is debating a sweeping climate plan with more than a snowball’s chance in hell of passage.
CNN

Democrats concede bipartisan infrastructure plan vote won’t happen Monday

By Kevin Liptak and Devan Cole 09/27/21
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday night that the House will vote Thursday on the $1 trillion infrastructure plan, as the future of President Joe…
Rolling Stone

Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

By Jeff Goodell 05/11/21
The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages…
The Washington Post

Biden insists he’s willing to negotiate with Republicans on infrastructure

By Seung Min Kim and Tony Romm 04/13/21
President Biden vowed Monday that the size and scope of his $2.25 trillion jobs plan — as well as how to pay for it —…
TPM

Republicans Think The Best Way To Block Dems’ Bill Is To Argue About The Definition Of ‘Infrastructure’

By Kate Riga 04/12/21
Republicans have taken a philosophical turn when talking about President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion-plus infrastructure plan. Creating a distinction between what counts as “real infrastructure”…
Bloomberg

One Big Chinese Lesson for America’s Infrastructure Plan

By David Fickling 04/09/21
If President Joe Biden is planning to transform America’s infrastructure with the  $2.25 trillion plan unveiled last week, he could do worse than learn from China.
Reuters

Biden tax plan replaces U.S. fossil fuel subsidies with clean energy incentives

By Timothy Gardner 04/07/21
 U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday released details of a tax hike proposal that would replace subsidies for fossil fuel companies with incentives for…
usa today

Joe Biden wants to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure and jobs

By Javier Zarracina and Joey Garrison 04/07/21
President Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that looks to reshape the American economy and make the most…
The Washington Post

Citing his ‘leverage,’ Manchin says White House tax plan must change

By Jeff Stein and Tony Romm 04/06/21
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) said on Monday he opposes a key part of the White House infrastructure plan, as early objections across the political…
The Washington Post

The GOP claim that only 5 to 7 percent of Biden’s plan is for ‘real infrastructure’

By Salvador Rizzo 04/05/21
“You look at this bill, the $2 trillion in the bill that, only about 5 to 7 percent of it is actual roads and bridges…
Politico

Dems can use unprecedented move for an extra filibuster-proof bill, Schumer aide says

By Caitlin Emma 04/05/21
Democrats can pass another major piece of legislation — such as President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion-plus infrastructure plan — by revisiting the budget process they…
The Washington Post

What Americans will get from Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan

By Jennifer Rubin 04/04/21
Since President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, he and his advisers have been making the case that this “once in a generation” bill…
Bloomberg Green

Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is a Green Jobs Plan

By Gernot Wagner 04/02/21
“Once you put capital money to work, jobs are created.” These are not the words of President Joe Biden, announcing his administration’s infrastructure plan in…
Volts

The coolest parts of Biden’s expansive infrastructure plan

By David Roberts 04/02/21
The eight-year "American Jobs Plan" would spend $2.25 trillion on a huge range of initiatives, from highways to the energy grid, water systems, airports, transit…
The Washington Post

Opinion: Biden might just understand public opinion better than his critics

By Jennifer Rubin 04/01/21
News pundits have been predicting a reckoning for President Biden: He’s risking his agenda with a big tax plan! Paying for infrastructure is politically perilous.
AP

Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to ‘win the future’

By Jonathan Lemire and Kevin Freking 04/01/21
President Joe Biden outlined a huge $2.3 trillion plan Wednesday to reengineer the nation’s infrastructure in what he billed as “a once-in-a-generation investment in America”…
Utility Dive

Biden $2 trillion infrastructure proposal includes billions in spending on transmission, clean energy

By Catherine Morehouse 04/01/21
Biden's proposed plan would spend more on climate and clean energy than any other administration in U.S. history, according to experts, and is the next…
WSJ

Biden’s Big Infrastructure Plan Would Further Boost Renewable Energy

By Russell Gold and Katherine Blunt 04/01/21
President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would supercharge an already booming clean-power sector by expanding subsidies and addressing key bottlenecks impeding the shift to a…
The Washington Post

White House unveils $2 trillion infrastructure and climate plan

By Jeff Stein , Juliet Eilperin , Michael Laris and Tony Romm 04/01/21
The White House’s unveiling of a $2 trillion jobs, infrastructure and green energy proposal to reshape the U.S. economy met a chorus of opposition late…
The Washington Post

White House plan calls for large expansion of federal government’s role in transportation

By Michael Laris and Ian Duncan 04/01/21
President Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for the federal government to take on a vast new role in funding the nation’s transportation networks, seeking to rebuild…
Reuters

‘Every step of the way’: McConnell pledges battle over Biden infrastructure plan

By David Morgan 04/01/21
President Joe Biden on Thursday faced the prospect of all-out political war with Republicans over his $2 trillion blueprint to revitalize America’s infrastructure, with a…
Scientific American

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Would Make Electricity Carbon-Free by 2035

By Scott Waldman 04/01/21
The backbone of President Biden's plan to use infrastructure spending to advance climate policy is a clean electricity standard for the power sector that has…
The Washington Post

Biden’s infrastructure plan aims to turbocharge U.S. shift from fossil fuels

By Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin 04/01/21
President Biden’s infrastructure plan would turbocharge the country’s transition from fossil fuels, using the muscle and vast resources of the federal government to intervene in…
NPR

Here’s What’s In President Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal

By Scott Detrow and Tamara Keith 03/31/21
President Biden on Wednesday will unveil a sprawling, ambitious infrastructure proposal that, if enacted, would overhaul how Americans get from Point A to Point B,…
The New York Times

Biden’s Climate Plan Means Tough Choices: Which Homes Get Saved?

By Christopher Flavelle 03/31/21
President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan represents an enormous effort to protect Americans from climate change, but it sidesteps one of the most immediate and…
The Washington Post

Auto negotiations test Biden’s vow to create a climate-friendly future

By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson 03/31/21
Phasing out the internal-combustion engine is critical to President Biden’s vow to retool the American economy for a low-carbon future. In a massive infrastructure plan…
The Washington Post

Biden’s infrastructure and climate plan emerges as congressional wrangling begins

By Jeff Stein, Juliet Eilperin, Seung Min Kim and Alyssa Fowers 03/31/21
The White House on Wednesday is expected to unveil a plan to spend $2.25 trillion on a jobs and infrastructure package that could form a…
Bloomberg Green

Biden Infrastructure Plan Targets Electric Cars, Clean Power

By Ari Natter and Jennifer A Dlouhy 03/31/21
President Joe Biden is calling for sweeping investment in electric vehicles, renewable power and the electric grid as part of a broad blueprint to bolster…
The New York Times

Biden Wants to Pay for Infrastructure Plan With 15 Years of Corporate Taxes

By Jim Tankersley and Emily Cochrane 03/30/21
The president will propose using the revenue from increasing corporate taxes to pay for eight years of ambitious spending on roads, bridges, utilities and other…
The Washington Post

White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan

By Jeff Stein 03/30/21
When President Biden’s team began putting together his infrastructure and jobs package this February, the White House National Economic Council circulated an internal proposal calling…
The Washington Post

Pay for Biden’s $3 trillion infrastructure plan with a carbon tax

Opinion by the Editorial Board 03/27/21
BETTER LATE than never: The American Petroleum Institute, accepting the reality of climate change and the need to do something about it, has officially called…
utilitydive.com

Biden to unveil multi-trillion dollar plan targeting power grids, other infrastructure next week

By Joe Bousquin 03/25/21
President Joe Biden will unveil his multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure plan next week in Pittsburgh, the White House announced Wednesday.
The Times

President Biden faces gathering storms over his environment policies

By Ben Hoyle 03/24/21
During his election campaign Joe Biden sketched a near future when millions of Americans would live in energy-efficient homes powered by wind or solar-generated electricity.
DESMOG

New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Climate Action as Congress Weighs Big Infrastructure Bill

By Nick Cunningham 03/24/21
Americans support the steps taken by the Biden administration thus far to tackle climate change by large margins, according to a new poll. The widespread…
02/18/21

…energy blackouts in Texas

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Los Angeles Times

Wind power didn’t cause the Texas blackouts. But it wasn’t just fossil fuels, either

By Sammy Roth 02/18/21
As a deadly winter storm plunged millions of Texans into darkness this week, politicians skeptical of climate change and loyal to the oil and gas industry did what they do best: They blamed renewable energy.…
The New York Times

The ‘Old American Dream,’ a Trap as the Floods Keep Coming

By Rick Rojas 03/28/21
In her kitchen, Juanita Hall routinely found opossums staring back at her from the cage trap she kept under the table. In one room, the…
Yale Climate Connections

Cartoonists – left, right, and center – have their say on Texas freeze and power outage

By Michael Svoboda 03/24/21
Winter may still have a surprise or two in store for us, like the four feet of snow that fell in the Rockies last week.…
The Hill

Moniz: Texas blackouts show need to protect infrastructure against climate change

By Zack Budryk 03/22/21
Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Monday told lawmakers that recent extreme weather events in Texas underscored the need to better incorporate climate change risks…
The Environmental Magazine

Frozen Gas Lines, Not Wind Turbines, Behind Texas Power Woes

By Renee Jiang 03/19/21
As Winter Storm Uri wreaked havoc on the American Midwest this past February with bitter cold snow, entire power grids shut down and states like…
Houston Chronicle

Tomlinson: Texas Blackout sparks interest in generators to keep power on, fight climate change

By Chris Tomlinson 03/15/21
Texas businesses and homeowners are scrambling to buy back-up generators following last month’s Texas Blackout, calculating the benefits will outweigh the costs the next time…
WSJ

The $16 Billion in Texas Power Overcharges? Monitor Says Only $3.2 Billion Can Be Undone

By Russell Gold and Katherine Blunt 03/11/21
Only a fraction of the $16 billion in Texas electricity overcharges stemming from last month’s blackouts can likely be recovered for consumers by attempting to…
CNBC

The Rise Of Wind Power In The U.S.

03/10/21
In the past decade, wind power capacity has tripled, and it’s projected to double in the decades to come. Wind is now America’s top renewable…
The New York Times

Texas Is a Rich State in a Rich Country, and Look What Happened

By Ezra Klein 02/25/21
We don’t realize how fragile the basic infrastructure of our civilization is.
RESILIENCE

Media reaction: Texas ‘deep freeze’, power blackouts and the role of global warming

By Josh Gabbatiss and Robert McSweeney 02/23/21
Last week, a blast of Arctic air engulfed much of the central US, bringing freezing conditions and record low temperatures to many states. Texas, in…
Bloomberg Opinion

The Simple Lesson of the Texas Blackouts

By Editorial Board 02/19/21
The details of what went wrong in Texas this week — most likely the biggest forced blackout in U.S. history — will take time to…
poweroutage.us

Texas Power Outages Map

02/19/21
Customers Tracked: 12,413,164 State Outages: 185,983 Last Updated: 2/19/2021, 06:27:40 PM ERCOT: Level 3 Alert – ERCOT is asking consumers to conserve energy.
The New York Times

A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids

By Brad Plumer 02/18/21
Systems are designed to handle spikes in demand, but the wild and unpredictable weather linked to global warming will very likely push grids beyond their…
npr.org

White House Adviser Says Texas Outages Show How U.S. Is Unprepared For Climate Change

By H.J. Mai 02/18/21
The extreme weather conditions in Texas, where a winter storm has caused widespread power outages, should serve as a reminder that climate change is real…
www.msnbc.com

Chris Hayes debunks GOP, right-wing media lies about Texas power outages

02/17/21
"It is just a lie that wind turbines, 'green energy' are the root causes of the problems in Texas right now,” says Chris Hayes, discussing…
CNBC

Texas blackouts show how vulnerable power grid is to climate change

By Emma Newburger 02/17/21
Power outages in Texas from the winter storm reveal a broader crisis: Climate change is fueling more frequent and destructive weather disasters that are overwhelming…
The Texas Tribune

Texas’ grid operator wants to bring relief by making power outages consistently shorter — but might not be able to Wednesday

By Cassandra Pollock 02/17/21
ERCOT's CEO and president told reporters Wednesday he's optimistic that the state's grid will start to see some of the power it has lost return…
The New York Times

No, Wind Farms Aren’t the Main Cause of the Texas Blackouts

By Dionne Searcey 02/17/21
The state’s widespread electricity failure was largely caused by freezing natural gas pipelines. That didn’t stop advocates for fossil fuels from trying to shift blame.…
Heated.world

The climate is drunk again

By Emily Atkin 02/16/21
Remember when the term “polar vortex” went viral? It was January of 2014, and parts of the U.S. were colder than Mars. In Minnesota, temperatures…
02/05/21

…electric vehicles are coming! …. as the Biden Climate Plan moves forward

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NPR

Reaching Back To The New Deal, Biden Proposes A Civilian Climate Corps

By Nathan Rott and Scott Detrow 05/11/21
Members of the Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) work on trails near Tally Lake in northwestern Montana. President Biden wants to retool and relaunch one of the country's most celebrated government programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps.…
The New York Times

Assessing Biden’s Climate Plan

By Michael Barbaro 02/02/21
The president has signed several executive orders for environmental policies since taking office. But the real work of reducing America’s emissions has just begun.    
The Washington Post

States are moving too slowly to guard the nation’s infrastructure

By Ian Duncan 11/28/21
Responding to increasingly common extreme weather is a vast undertaking that many state transportation departments are only beginning to tackle.
Triple Pundit

Biden’s First 100 days: A Climate Resilience Appraisal

By Laurie Schoeman 05/06/21
How has President Biden’s first 100 days in office helped us as we continue through this resilience decade? What’s the very early scorecard on climate…
Outside Online

What Biden’s Done for the Climate in His First 100 Days

By Heather Hansman 04/29/21
The 46th president made big promises to move the United States toward a carbon-free future. What he’s accomplished so far has been impressive, but can…
Reuters

Biden tax plan replaces U.S. fossil fuel subsidies with clean energy incentives

By Timothy Gardner 04/07/21
 U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday released details of a tax hike proposal that would replace subsidies for fossil fuel companies with incentives for…
The New York Times

Electric Cars Are Coming. How Long Until They Rule the Road?

By Brad Plumer, Nadja Popovich and Blacki Migliozzi 03/10/21
Around the world, governments and automakers are focused on selling newer, cleaner electric vehicles as a key solution to climate change. Yet it could take…
The New York Times

The Auto Industry Bets Its Future on Batteries

By Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn 02/16/21
As automakers like General Motors, Volkswagen and Ford Motor make bold promises about transitioning to an electrified, emission-free future, one thing is becoming obvious: They…
The New York Times

The Auto Revolution Is Here

By Shira Ovide 02/08/21
In the past few weeks, conventional cars have been put on the endangered list. The electric carmaker Tesla turned its first full-year profit in its…
The New York Times

E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors

By Stephen Williams 02/05/21
Building electric cars, and repairing them, will require a huge change for the industry and usher in a new automotive era. Taking a cue from…
The New York Times

Automakers Drop Efforts to Derail California Climate Rules

By Coral Davenport 02/02/21
Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and several other major automakers said Tuesday they would no longer try to block California from setting its own strict fuel-economy standards,…
www.pymnts.com

GM’s Electric Vehicle Makeover Reverberates Far Beyond Detroit

By PYMNTS 02/01/21
Beneath a banner proclaiming “Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, Zero Congestion,” General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra announced her company’s plan to produce 100 percent electric vehicles by 2035,…
The New York Times

G.M.’s Electric Car Push Could Put China in the Driver’s Seat

By Keith Bradsher 01/29/21
With government support and lavish subsidies, Chinese companies have come to dominate the market for batteries, motors and other essentials Detroit may need for its…
The New York Times

Electric Cars Are Coming, and Fast. Is the Nation’s Grid Up to It?

By Brad Plumer 01/29/21
Major automakers are increasingly betting that millions of new cars and trucks over the next decade will be plugged into electrical outlets, not fueled up…
The New York Times

G.M. Announcement Shakes Up U.S. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars

By Neal E. Boudette and Coral Davenport 01/29/21
A new president took office this month determined to fight climate change. Wall Street investors think Tesla is worth more than General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen…
The New York Times

G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035

By Neal E. Boudette and Coral Davenport 01/28/21
The move, one of the most ambitious in the auto industry, is a piece of a broader plan by the company to become carbon neutral…
www.caranddriver.com

Every Electric Vehicle That’s Expected in the Next Five Years

By Car and Driver 01/12/21
These EVs aren't for sale yet but are in various stages from concept to production—and perhaps a few may never see the light of day.…
01/06/21

…What will Biden do for climate?

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vox.com

How Joe Biden plans to use executive powers to fight climate change

By Umair Irfan 01/06/21
With the Senate question largely resolved, President-elect Joe Biden can now start to focus on policy, including his ambitious agenda to deal with climate change.
The New Yorker

A New Day for the Climate

By Elizabeth Kolbert 01/31/21
Nine years ago, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had a sign made up that showed a photograph of the Earth as seen from space. “TIME TO WAKE…
The New Yorker

The Biden Administration’s Landmark Day in the Fight for the Climate

By Bill McKibben 01/28/21
January 27th was the most remarkable day in the history of America’s official response to the climate crisis, at least since that June afternoon in…
The Washington Post

The Energy 202: Today is Biden’s ‘Climate Day.’ Here’s what to expect.

By Dino Grandoni 01/27/21
President Biden is preparing a slew of executive orders Wednesday building out the new administration's agenda for tackling climate change, in what is being dubbed…
The New York Times

How Biden’s Climate Ambitions Could Shift America’s Global Footprint

By Somini Sengupta 01/27/21
President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday said climate change should be regarded as “an essential element of U.S. foreign policy and national security.” That is…
The New York Times

A ‘Nerve Center’ for Climate in the Biden White House

By Lisa Friedman 01/21/21
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brings with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global…
The New Yorker

Joe Biden’s Cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline Is a Landmark in the Climate Fight

By Bill McKibben 01/21/21
In his first hours in office, Joe Biden has settled—almost certainly, once and for all—one of the greatest environmental battles this country has seen. He…
joebiden.com

THE BIDEN PLAN: For a Clean Energy Revolution And Environmental Justice

01/21/21
Joe Biden knows there is no greater challenge facing our country and our world. That’s why he is outlining a bold plan – a Clean…
Yale Climate Connections

What Biden and Democratic Senate can do on climate in their first 100 days

By Dana Nuccitelli 01/20/21
Biden administration progress on climate change will have to overcome roadblocks left by the Trump administration and some arcane Senate rules. But hope springs eternal.…
Scientific American

Biden’s First Climate Actions Include Rejoining Paris Agreement

By Scott Waldman 01/20/21
Joe Biden will spend his first hours as president trying to obliterate much of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, restore public land protections and reestablish…
CNN

Biden administration to rescind Keystone pipeline permit on Wednesday, sources say

By Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg 01/19/21
President-elect Joe Biden's incoming administration plans to rescind the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, two sources familiar with the decision…
CNN

Biden to sign executive orders rejoining Paris climate accord and rescinding travel ban on first day

By Dan Merica 01/17/21
President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim…
Climate Solutions

High hopes and great expectations: a political shift on climate

By Jonathan Lawson 01/15/21
Climate Solutions has published an outline of climate action priorities for the session, including the Clean Fuel Standard which would serve as a foundational policy…
The Washington Post

Biden swells the ranks of his White House climate team

By Dino Grandoni and Juliet Eilperin 01/15/21
President-elect Joe Biden added more than a half-dozen climate staffers to his White House team Thursday, drawing from the ranks of green groups, environmental justice…
emagazine.com

Climate Change After Trump: What Can We Expect

By Dan Lennon 01/12/21
The Biden administration will reinstate the environmental safeguards rescinded by the outgoing administration, and it will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement...
Eco Watch

Biden Plans to Fight Climate Change in a New Way

By Bill Ritter Jr. 01/12/21
Joe Biden is preparing to deal with climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before – by mobilizing his entire administration to…
The Washington Post

The Energy 202: What Merrick Garland as attorney general means for the environment

By Dino Grandoni 01/11/21
President-elect Joe Biden's pick for attorney general, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Merrick B. Garland, is set to bring deep expertise on environmental law to the…
Scientific American

Biden Climate Team Says It Underestimated Trump’s Damage

By Adam Aton 01/06/21
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team says the Trump administration has done more damage than anticipated to the government’s ability to address climate change...
Forbes

With Biden, The Whole Climate Will Change

By Ken Silverstein 01/04/21
During the Trump Administration, a dark cloud hung over the nation’s environmental movement and specifically any attempts to mitigate climate change. But the election of…
Biden-Harris Transition

Climate Nominees and Appointees

01/01/21
This team will advance the President-elect’s agenda leading the world to confront the climate crisis — creating good-paying jobs, building resilient communities, and making historic…
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