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The Most At-Risk Projects of the Energy Transition

These are the 10 most important clean energy transition projects struggling to get off the ground

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Climate

AM Briefing: Protecting Biodiversity

On the COP16 biodiversity summit, Big Oil’s big plan, and sea level rise

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America Is Becoming a Low-Trust Society

That means big, bad things for disaster relief — and for climate policy in general.

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Washington State and pollution.

How Washington State’s Climate Legacy Wound Up on the Ballot

After a decade of leadership, voters are poised to overturn two of its biggest achievements. What happened?

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The Supreme Court.

SCOTUS Says Biden’s Power Plant Rules Can Stay — For Now

They may not survive a full challenge, though.

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Robinson Meyer and Ali Zaidi.
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What’s next for the Biden administration — and for climate policy in the United States? Should Democrats negotiate with Republicans over permitting reform, even if it means making concessions to fossil fuel interests? And how should the country’s trade policy handle the problem of carbon pollution?

On this week’s episode of Shift Key, Rob speaks with Ali Zaidi, the national climate advisor to President Joe Biden. Zaidi leads the White House Climate Policy Office, which coordinates domestic climate policy across federal agencies. Before joining the White House in 2021, Zaidi was the state of New York’s deputy secretary for energy and environment. This interview was recorded live on October 10 in New Haven, Connecticut, at the Yale Clean Energy Conference.

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These Hurricanes Have Birthed a New Kind of Climate Denial

With consequences that are extremely real.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk.
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Maybe Sharpiegate wasn’t so funny after all.

You’ll recall the micro-controversy from 2019, when then-President Donald Trump said that Hurricane Dorian was headed toward Alabama (which it wasn’t), and officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were pressured to back up Trump’s mistake. It culminated in Trump presenting a map in the Oval Office on which someone drew a bubble atop the projected path of the storm so it would stretch into Alabama, apparently with a Sharpie.

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