Robinson Meyer
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Democrats May Be on the Verge of Climate Disaster
The party’s climate measures suddenly face a tough battle in Congress.
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Buyenlarge / Getty Why I’m Thinking About Alcohol Taxes
And what they have to do with climate change.
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Bryan Anselm / The New York Times / … When the Climate Crisis Becomes Unignorable
This summer’s weather has forced a kind of continuous awareness of climate change.
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Al Drago / The New York Times / … The Planet Needs Jerome Powell
The Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Reserve has inadvertently become a climate advocate.
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Brandon Bell / Getty We’re Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness
Cities simply don’t have enough time to run from a storm like Ida.
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ESOlex / Getty How the U.S. Could Slash Climate Pollution by 2030
Democrats will soon reveal how the Biden administration’s plans could cut U.S. climate pollution in half this decade. Is that goal even possible?
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Noah Berger / Bloomberg / Getty The Bill That Could Truly, Actually Bring Back U.S. Manufacturing
And help the climate, too
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NurPhoto / Getty It’s Grim
The latest UN report is clear: Climate change is here, it’s a crisis, and it’s caused by fossil fuels.
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George Rose / Getty The Infrastructure Deal Is Not Not a Climate Bill
Here are five ways of looking at the Senate’s bipartisan proposal.
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Evan Vucci / AP Congress Is Slashing a $30 Billion Plan to Fight the Next Pandemic
The proposal would overhaul America’s approach to tackling outbreaks, allowing scientists to develop vaccines in advance. But for now, Democrats are cutting it down.
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Knud Pfeifer / Picture Press / Redux Unfortunately, I Care About Power Lines Now
If America wants to fight climate change—or enjoy the benefits of a modern economy—it must get much better at building electricity transmission. Yikes.
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Jeff Swensen/Getty Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47
It reshaped how the world thought about climate change. But its prized trait—bloodless economic efficiency—won it few friends on the right or left.
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Kyle Wolfe / Getty The Green New Deal Does Not, Strictly Speaking, Exist
The idea has reshaped global climate policy, but is far less concrete than its supporters have been led to believe.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Energy Revolution Is Tweaking OPEC Out
Oil-producing countries are starting to prepare for a peak in oil demand. That isn’t necessarily good news for the planet.
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Nathan Howard / Getty Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat
The Pacific Northwest is melting now, but all across America the infrastructure we have was built for the wrong century.
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Anton Petrus / Getty A Major New Index Fund Should Unnerve Climate-Skeptical CEOs
The hedge fund that staged a revolt at Exxon last month is now recruiting an army of mom-and-pop investors for future battles.
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Getty; The Atlantic How the U.S. Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill
A “green vortex” is saving America’s climate future.
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Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / … Why America Doesn’t Really Make Solar Panels Anymore
America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological advantage anyway.
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Jim Young / Reuters Wall Street’s Skirmish With Exxon Is ‘Monumental’
Why a hedge fund’s successful assault on ExxonMobil matters
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Courtesy of Ford Stop Worrying and Love the F-150 Lightning
Here are seven ways Ford’s first electric pickup truck signals that decarbonization has entered a new era.
