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Xi Jinping and solar panels.
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The GOP Megabill Is Playing Right Into China’s Hands

Two former Department of Energy staffers argue from experience that severe foreign entity restrictions aren’t the way to reshore America’s clean energy supply chain.

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The Energy Transition Needs More Policy, Not Less

In defense of “everything bagel” policymaking.

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Decarbonization’s Dollar Dilemma

The U.S. is too enmeshed in the global financial system for the rest of the world to solve climate change without us.

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Trump’s Budget Would Be a Bust for Oil Boomtowns

And coal communities and fracking villages and all the rest.

Inflation tied up on a wind turbine.

The Clean Energy Dividend

The founder of Galvanize Climate Solutions and a 2020 presidential candidate does some math on how smart climate policy could help the U.S. in a trade war.

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Fans and clouds.

The Climeworks Scandal That Wasn’t

Direct air capture isn’t doing everything its advocates promised — yet. That doesn’t make it a scam.

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The Real Problem With ‘Climate Realism’

What the Council on Foreign Relations’ new climate program gets drastically wrong.

An American flag in deep water.
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Let’s start with two basic facts.

First, the climate crisis is here now, killing people, devastating communities, and destroying infrastructure in Los Angeles and Asheville and Spain and Pakistan and China. And it will get worse.

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For Real Energy Dominance, We Need the IRA

Biden’s Secretary of Energy argues that if Trump wants to achieve his goals, preserving his predecessor’s manufacturing incentives is the only way.

The Statue of Liberty.
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What if — despite the news — America is in fact the world’s most promising country to invest in right now? What if now is actually the best time to build a manufacturing facility in the U.S., particularly for the new energy economy? What if hundreds of communities could be rejoicing in fresh opportunities to work in future-facing industries?

And what if the reason comes down to the combined efforts of Joe Biden and Donald Trump?

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