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To Succeed in Washington, Clean Energy Has to Play Both Sides

A longtime climate messaging strategist is tired of seeing the industry punch below its weight.

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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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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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Two events last week thrust direct air capture carbon removal into the spotlight — one promising, though controversial for some, the other mendacious and ill-informed.

On Friday, Occidental announced a potential $500 million joint venture investment from Adnoc’s XRG, the lower-carbon investment wing for the United Arab Emirates state-run oil company in Oxy’s South Texas DAC Hub project. The facility is part of the $3.5 billion federal DAC hubs program created through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Although the DAC hubs program has strong bipartisan support, it has faced relative uncertainty under the new administration, calling into question American leadership on the future of the industry.

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The Real Problem With ‘Climate Realism’

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

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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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