Kate Aronoff

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At this week’s North American Gas Forum in D.C., industry representatives weren’t celebrating their record profits. They were whining about “being attacked on a daily basis” by Democrats and environmentalists.

Day two of the North American Gas Forum closed with a bang on Tuesday.

The president’s response to rising gas prices amounts to a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry, but for some reason CEOs—and Republicans—are whining about it.

Heavily indebted nations’ threat to stop payment on debts is a last-ditch effort to get rich countries to pay attention to their plight.

Defeating Bolsonaro in this month’s runoff election is the beginning, but it’s not enough.

Hurricane Ian is highlighting the limits of the insurance industry to help navigate the climate crisis.

In a year full of climate disasters wrecking homes and lives, global warming ought to be treated like the kitchen-table issue it is.

The winds may have died down, but for many of the hardest hit, the long struggle to recover has only just begun.

The country most responsible for climate change basically leaves the poor to fend for themselves. That’s true whether disaster occurs in Pakistan, Puerto Rico, or Florida.

Now that Manchin’s bill has failed to win enough support, there’s space for a better debate about how to streamline the approval process for new energy projects.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the single largest recipient of campaign funds from NextEra energy, whose pipeline project could get fast-tracked with the deal Schumer recently brokered.

Whether the outcome will be good or bad for the climate remains unclear. The process, though, was terrible.

The U.S. climate envoy seemed to come unglued this week when Farhana Yamin, a veteran environmental lawyer and climate negotiator, asked him about funding for nations recovering from climate catastrophe.

Hurricane Fiona hit the island as only a Category 1 storm. But thanks to bad management, the electrical grid immediately collapsed.

Selling off refineries doesn’t actually reduce emissions. It just passes the buck.

Details on the permitting reform demanded by Senator Manchin remain scant. Many fear it could prove a giveaway to fossil fuel companies.

Americans will feel the pain of skyrocketing rates, but so will indebted countries of the global south that are already struggling to withstand global warming–fueled disasters.

The major oil-producing state has long tried to have it both ways: regulating emissions while allowing companies to drill at will. That’s about to change.

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.

Rural co-operatives, serving 42 million people, will soon get money to help them transition off coal.