Top EU Official Blasts Trump’s Plan to Invite Russia to G7 Meeting
President Donald Trump sits for lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron.Andrew Harnik/AP President Donald Trump has reportedly been complaining up a storm about having to represent the United States at this week’s meeting of the G7 in Biarritz, France. It’s hard to blame him, really. He hates it when he can’t sleep in his own…
Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg Don’t Have Climate Plans
Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg round out the top tier of Democratic candidates, but neither one of them has released a climate plan yet. Booker’s placeholder is here; Buttigieg’s is here. Neither one looks very promising, but I’ll withhold judgment for now. When they release their plans, I’ll grade them then.
Beto O’Rourke Gets an F for His Climate Plan
Brent Soule/ZUMA Beto O’Rourke’s climate plan presents a problem: it’s so full of jargon and voodoo accounting that it’s genuinely hard to figure out what he’s saying. For starters, he calls it a $5 trillion plan, but it turns out that he plans only to “mobilize” $5 trillion by “leveraging” a $1.5 trillion direct investment.…
Joe Biden Gets a C+ for His Climate Plan
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Joe Biden has proposed a $1.7 trillion climate plan over ten years that includes the following major components: Net zero emissions by 2050. $400 billion (over ten years) on R&D targeted at: grid-scale storage; small modular nuclear reactors; zero net energy buildings; using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen; decarbonizing industrial…
Look No Further Than Brazil’s Amazon Fire for the Dangers of Deregulation
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took power this year promising to open the Amazon rainforest to industry, roll back environmental and indigenous protections, and stack his Cabinet with ideologues who dismiss climate change as a Marxist hoax. But the record wildfires now raging…
Kamala Harris Doesn’t Have a Climate Plan
Jerry Mennenga/ZUMA Kamala Harris’s climate plan is here. It’s just a placeholder with a few platitudes about fighting big oil, “building a clean economy that creates good-paying jobs for the future,” etc. I’m a little surprised that Harris doesn’t have something more by now, but there’s still plenty of time left. When she releases a…