By Joel Stronberg, illuminem
Biden and the Democratic progressives have put together the semblance of an integrated energy and environment policy framework for the first time in US history. It can only be whittled on so much before it’s just another bunch of disjointed pieces.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
It’s critically important for climate activists to understand what policies and programs are possible under reconciliation. According to the House Budget Committee, only policies that change spending or revenues can be included.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Until trust and civility are restored, governing the nation will continue to be beyond anyone’s grasp. Talk about an unsustainable environment.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
We know what climate and clean energy policies by presidential order mean for the nation—a perpetual cycle of feast and famine that creates uncertainty in the marketplace and crowded court calendars.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
In the final analysis, I believe the fate of Biden’s Job Plan will be left to the President and the American people to decide. Will they choose to build back to the future or the past? Only time will tell.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
It may sound strange to suggest the fate of President Biden’s climate agenda will parallel that of Liz Cheney, Wyoming’s at-large Republican congressional representative, but hear me out.
By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus
The fate of the United States has never been more linked—virally, environmentally, economically, and existentially—to the fate of the rest of the world.
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The new popularity of the term Green New Deal can be credited to this group of young climate activists known as the Sunrise Movement.
By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
What will the Biden-Harris administration mean for America’s energy transition, its relationship with the rest of the world, and for global action on climate?
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
There will never be a better time in this election cycle to contact Republicans running for Congress and get them to commit to supporting aggressive policies to combat Earth's rising temperatures.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Surely the Democratic tent is big enough to accommodate all generations and to take the best bits of each factions climate defense plans and blend them into supportable legislation that puts the necessary policies and programs into place. Every generation depends upon it.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
It's hardly a surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is controlling politics up and down Pennsylvania from Capitol Hill to the White House. The president assumed a more somber tone during the week, although he continued to make misstatements about the pandemic and what the government was doing about it.