List of Energy and the Environment articles
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An aerial view of Marathon Petroleum's refinery in Carson, California, on April 22. How Biden Could Use Trump’s Trade War Thumbscrews to Fight Climate Change
Fortunately for supporters of aggressive action on global emissions, Trump has demonstrated a highly effective way to circumvent the legislative process.
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Schoolchildren play on melting ice in the climate change-affected Yupik Eskimo village of Napakiak in Alaska on April 18, 2019. It’s Time to Put Climate Action at the Center of U.S. Foreign Policy
From the Pentagon to the White House Situation Room, climate change must be considered in every decision.
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The sun sets on a polluted day in Beijing on Jan. 18. The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe
Political ambitions make China’s emissions growth inevitable even as the economy falters.
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ethiopia-grand-renaissance-dam-gerd-illustration-FP-guide22 The Blue Nile Is Dammed
Geopolitics, water security, and health will keep the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam alive.
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A protest asking Florida to fix its unemployment system The Time for America to Embrace Industrial Policy Has Arrived
The United States has always helped some parts of the economy at the expense of others. It’s time to get it right.
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The Moskva icebreaker There Is No Arctic Axis
Russia and China’s partnership in the north is primarily driven by business, not politics.
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A man wearing a hard hat walks by the central facility where the Nord Stream Baltic Sea gas pipeline reaches Western Europe in Lubmin, Germany, on Nov. 8, 2011. Putin’s Folly
Pompeo may be in an uproar over Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but it is hardly the geopolitical masterstroke he imagines.
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A used fuel barrel sits in the Yazoo River floodwaters near Yazoo City, Mississippi, on May 22, 2011. After Decades of Wrong Predictions, Oil May Finally Be Peaking
Thanks to the pandemic, demand is flattening faster than expected. In turn, the energy economy could transform sooner rather than later.
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A view of the campus of Harvard Business School. Our Top Weekend Reads
Britain is becoming like America, the Egyptian government is facing pressure on social media, and sending international students home could undermine U.S. soft power.
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Workers install a solar panel system on the roof of a home in Palmetto Bay, Florida, on Jan. 23, 2018. The Post-Pandemic Economy Could Be Green and Clean—but Not With These Plans
Well-meaning green stimulus plans fall far short of what’s needed for the climate and the economy.
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Wind turbines tower over a building on a farm in Colorado City, Texas, on Jan. 21, 2016. Deep in the Heart of Texas, a Chinese Wind Farm Raises Eyebrows
Members of Congress fear Beijing could use the facility for espionage and economic warfare. But the Trump administration is set to let it move forward.
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Berta Caceres Protest 2018 In Honduras, a Journalist Explores an Activist’s Murder
A conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet”
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The Wilmington ARCO refinery The Myth of America’s Green Growth
A celebrated new book shows U.S. capitalism doesn’t need to damage the planet. One problem: Its data is flawed.
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A child and a woman break rocks extracted from a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Green Energy’s Dirty Side Effects
The global transition to renewables could lead to human rights abuses and risks exacerbating inequalities between the West and the developing world.
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Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant pose for portraits on Feb. 23, 2016, in Okuma, Japan. It’s Not Techno-Angst That’s Driving East Asia to Abandon Nuclear Power
In the East Asian democracies, nuclear energy is tied to an increasingly unpopular political and economic model.
