Whatever his voters intended, we can abandon the notion that President-elect Donald Trump is a right-wing populist. Right-wing, yes, authoritarian, probably, demagogue certainly. But his cabinet gives the lie to populism as part of his character. Wall Street may have paid Hilary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars to make speeches; but it is Trump […]
I’m here to debate (along with Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard) a couple of coal advocates from Texas on the topic, “Has EPA Gone Too Far,” with its Clean Power Plan (CPP). Our opponents are Charles McConnell, who was assistant secretary for Fossil Energy in the first Obama Administration, and […]
“This was retail politics and oil lost,” was how Adrienne Alvord of Union of Concerned Scientists summed up the stunning environmental victory Tuesday in the California legislature, a victory which cemented the state’s commitment to a 40 percent reduction in climate pollution by 2030. It’s not accidental that states providing climate leadership are the states […]
The eyes and the hopes of climate advocates everywhere should be focused for the next two weeks on California. Interstate 80, seen here in Berkeley, California, is a freeway with many lanes and heavy traffic.Wikipedia Our prospects for breakthrough climate progress rest on five global theaters of war: 1. Curbing and then ending reliance on […]
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