Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

Polluters helped build the court’s conservative majority. Would Democratic laws stand a chance against it?

The vice presidential debate put a new face of climate disinformation on display. So far, establishment Democrats seem willing to play along.

A striking new report reveals that the oil giant plans to increase emissions. That’s the very business model the government is enabling.

The party leadership’s attempt at a bipartisan boost for renewables won only seven Republican votes and alienated progressives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Pulling carbon from the air is a noble goal. But that’s not why fossil fuel executives are embracing it.

Like Theranos before it, the electric truck company shows it’s a mistake to hope start-ups can save the planet.

Big business claims to care about climate change, but it has funded the very denialism and conspiracy-mongering that fuels Trump’s Republican Party.

Ernest Moniz served as Obama’s secretary of energy. His ties to the fossil fuel industry have only deepened since then. Will Biden give him his old job back?

Democrats can’t go green while continuing to green-light fossil fuel production.

The Bureau of Land Management is rushing to auction off sites ahead of a potential Biden presidency.

Fossil fuel companies, facing plummeting oil demand, are pouring their resources into plastics. A new report suggests that’s foolish.

A wonky California legislative fight is a test of whether green jobs will be good jobs, too.

From California wildfires to Gulf Coast hurricanes, the disaster capitalists are always ready to make a killing.

Speakers aren’t even taking the time to deny climate change at the Republican convention. They’re just ignoring it.

They’re floating castles of crime, polluting our air and water.

Big Oil is collapsing. Democrats can either plan for it and win its workers or ignore the problem—and get punished for it.

Chrysta Castañeda could become the first-time Democrat to win statewide elected office since 1994.

Leasing off oil and gas permits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may do more harm than good for fossil fuel producers.

Instead of bailing out Exxon and other fossil fuel companies, a National Investment Authority could democratize finance and help ordinary people and their governments fight climate change.

The Democratic Party’s 2020 platform echoes President Trump’s hawkishness on China. That’s a mistake.