Tag: Climate Change

Energy and Environment

Biden asks global oil cartel OPEC+ to boost production as pump prices spike

Josh Siegel · August 11, 2021 1:37 pm

The 2015 Paris Agreement is a global pact to combat climate change under which all of the nations of the world voluntarily set their own nonbinding targets for reducing carbon emissions.

It’s the end of the world as the IPCC knows it, and we feel fine

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2021 4:00 am

Senate Republicans led by Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota wrote a letter sent to President Joe Biden warning the EUâs carbon tariff plan is âunfair to the U.S.â

Energy and Environment

Republicans call on Biden to fend off EU’s ‘green protectionism’ carbon tariffs

Josh Siegel · August 10, 2021 9:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Kerry jets to Obama’s birthday bash while his boss makes everyone else mask up (again)

Tiana Lowe Doescher · August 9, 2021 7:23 pm

Xi Jinping.

Beltway Confidential

China has used the 21st century’s three defining crises to steal a move on its rivals

Robert Blohm · August 9, 2021 4:00 pm

Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget blueprint does not include specific clean energy or climate policy details but directs individual committees to write legislation as part of a sprawling reconciliation package that fits within the spending limit.

Energy and Environment

Democrats outline plan to cut emissions in half by 2030 without GOP votes

Josh Siegel · August 9, 2021 2:37 pm

Free community college, preschool, and amnesty for millions: Senate unveils $3.5 trillion budget plan

Susan Ferrechio · August 9, 2021 2:29 pm

Energy and Environment

Climate-driven weather extremes will worsen without deep emissions cuts, UN warns

Josh Siegel · August 9, 2021 10:30 am

Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss his budget and the status of diplomatic hot spots. Lawmakers' questions focused on Russia, Ukraine, Iran and Syria. Kerry, a former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, threatened Russia with tougher economic sanctions if it fails to back down from its chaotic involvement in Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

State Department denies climate envoy John Kerry flew private jet to Obama’s birthday party

Mike Brest · August 7, 2021 9:45 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along a dried-up ditch between rice farms in Richvale, Calif. In dry California, water is fetching record high prices. As drought has deepened in the last few months, a handful of special districts in the state's agricultural heartland have made millions through auctions of their private, underground caches that go to the highest bidders. With the unregulated, erratic water market heating up in anticipation of the hot summer months, the price is only going up. In the last five years alone, it has grown tenfold, shooting to as much as $2,200 an acre foot. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, FILE)

Beltway Confidential

Climate change is no excuse for California’s water issues

Zachary Faria · August 6, 2021 8:35 pm

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf adjusts his mask before a rally to raise the state minimum wage at Sharon Baptist Church, Friday, July 9, 2021, in Philadelphia.

Beltway Confidential

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf wants to ignore science to pass a carbon tax

Kevin Mooney · August 6, 2021 6:00 pm

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stand on the East steps of Capitol Hill in this Dec. 2021 photo.

Infrastructure bill escalates climate change clash

Susan Ferrechio · August 6, 2021 3:00 am