Trump Uses Paris Protests as an Opportunity to Blast International Climate Agreement
Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. French police clashed with “yellow vest” protesters in Paris on Saturday as country-wide demonstrations of President Emanuel Macron’s leadership and economic policies continued for the fourth consecutive weekend. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and nearly1,000 protesters…
Climate Policy That Ignores Class Doesn’t Work
France’s gas tax was was far less ambitious. Revenues from the levy, which would have raised prices by 24 cents a gallon on diesel and 12 cents a gallon on unleaded gas, were intended to pay down the country’s growing budget deficit. “A carbon tax should not be the leading force in any initiative.” “A…
This is Why Democrats Are Letting a Senator From Coal Country Oversee the Energy Industry
Ernesto Hernandez Fonte/US Navy via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a strange twist of fate, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who once fired a shotgun at a climate bill, is expecting to be promoted to a leadership position in a key Senate committee that conducts environmental oversight. Progressive environmental groups have pressured Minority…
What Qualifies You to Become a Top Trump Energy Regulator? Telling Your Son to Deny Climate Change.
Bernard McNamee, President Trump’s nomination to join an energy industry regulatory body, gives a talk in February at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event.Energy and Policy Institute/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last February, Bernard McNamee stood behind the lectern in a crowded hotel ballroom in Austin, Texas, to deliver a speech on…
At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders didn’t have to remind the hundreds of activists, young people, policy wonks, and thousands of viewers online watching his climate change town hall Monday night of “the great crisis facing our planet and facing our humanity.” That was one of the central…
Trump Tries to Throw Gasoline on France’s Fuel Riots
Nicolas LiponnNurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A series of violent protests that have rattled France in recent weeks have caught the eye of Donald Trump. Earlier today, @realdonaldtrump retweeted a post from Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, which attributed the “riots in…