With the hard-fought election now over, and resulting narrow majorities in Congress, it’s time to put politics and pride aside in favor of real progress towards a cleaner environment. Policymakers on both sides of the aisle should allow innovation to be unleashed.
Interior Secretary Nominee on Collision Course With Oil Industry
“The Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico has joined with pipeline protesters, supported the Green New Deal and opposed fracking on public lands."
Hurting the Economy without Helping the Climate? We’ve Got this Inside-Out
“While such decisions are undoubtedly popular with radical environmentalists and their well-funded allies, it is hard to see how they — or anyone likely to follow them — will achieve the reductions in CO2 emissions necessary to make any difference to the climate."
Clean Energy Manufacturing Should be Done in America, Not China
A strong U.S. industrial sector is essential to ensuring new technologies invented in the U.S. can be manufactured domestically, rather than in China, which would result in more jobs and fewer carbon dioxide emissions.
Three Keys to the GOP’s post-Trump Future
The House GOP’s overwhelmingly endorsement of Liz Cheney reveals a party that is ready to move on.
Biden Risks Deepening the Cultural Divide on Climate Change
Climate change is a threat to the health, safety, and livelihoods of all Americans. There is no simple solution, but creating further division is a guaranteed path to failure.
Climate Negotiations with Beijing Won’t Come without Significant Concessions
"Kerry can’t simply wave away the concerns that climate negotiations with Beijing will require U.S. concessions in other, unrelated areas if the Chinese government publicly demands such concessions with regard to 'interference in China’s internal affairs' (which is to say human rights)."
Biden faces pressures to speed clean energy permitting without undercutting reviews
"Renewable energy groups have complained that federal permitting has caused long project delays and cost increases for wind turbines and solar farms, as well as the transmission lines that carry renewable energy from where it is generated to population centers."
De Blasio moves to ban natural gas hookups: ‘Literally’ our ‘only choice is renewable energy’
"‘We need to make clear that New York City will renounce fossil fuels fully. Therefore, we need to ban fossil fuel connections in the city by the end of this decade, literally ensuring that our only choice is renewable energy.'"
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann: Clean energy – Biden and Republicans can work together. Here’s how
"If President Biden reached out to Congress, he may be surprised to learn that there is a large coalition of lawmakers from across the political spectrum who are eager to get involved in the fight to reduce carbon emissions.”
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