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Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic. She is the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back, and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Kate is also a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, and serves in Dissent’s editorial board.

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July 8, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Obscure Treaty That Could Kill a Global Green Recovery
The Energy Charter Treaty, with 53 signatories, allows energy companies to sue states that make their business unprofitable.
July 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Anti-Pipeline Protesters Made the Fossil Fuel Industry Face Economic Reality
Energy companies have abandoned the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
July 1, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats’ New Climate Plan Is Weirdly Isolationist
A new 538-page report adopts an America First strategy to solve a global problem.
June 30, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Fed Is Bailing Out Polluters While Cities Struggle
Fossil fuel interests have readier access to stimulus money than many local governments.
June 26, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is BlackRock the New Vampire Squid?
The investment giant casts itself as socially responsible while contributing to the climate catastrophe, evading regulatory scrutiny, and angling to influence a Biden administration.
June 24, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Jamaal Bowman and the Democratic Insurgency That Could Help Save the Planet
Many establishment Democrats have failed to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis, but their challengers do.
June 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Turn Rikers Island Into a Solar Farm
A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.
June 17, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Inside the Fight to Shape Biden’s Climate Policy
The candidate’s official platform may matter less in the end than his appointments. Progressives are starting to suggest names.
June 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
One Quick Trick for Curbing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Political Influence
Nationalize them.
June 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Reactionary Unions Don’t Just Back Police. They Also Back Fossil Fuels.
The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?
June 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
BP Is Not Woke. It’s an Imperialist Success Story.
The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.
June 4, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Defunding the Police Is Good Climate Policy
Budgets are about to get tight. States and cities should direct money to programs that truly make communities more secure.
June 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is Puerto Rico About to Give Another Terrible Energy Contract to an American Company?
Prepa, the island’s electric power company, and FEMA have found themselves embroiled in scandal before.
May 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
May 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Democrats Can Win Coal Country—and the 2020 Election
The fossil fuel industry is hemorrhaging jobs in swing states.
May 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America Is Not as Resilient as It Thinks It Is
Whether in a pandemic or a hurricane, inequality and underfunded infrastructure are bad for disaster preparedness.
May 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
Paying oil workers to clean up extraction sites and capture carbon could help both the economy and the planet.
May 7, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Oil Crash Could Be Geothermal’s Big Break
Geothermal power requires similar infrastructure and skills as fossil fuel extraction, which means laid-off oil workers could switch to greener work pretty easily.
May 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Important Debate Planet of the Humans Misses
Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.

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