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Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic. She is the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back, and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Kate is also a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, and serves in Dissent’s editorial board.

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August 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Real Reason BP Is Getting Greener
For fossil fuel companies like BP, Exxon, and Shell, slashing production is good business.
August 5, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Utility Companies’ Deadly Addiction to Profit
From wildfires to shut-off threats, utility companies have a track record of endangering consumers.
July 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Fossil Fuels’ United Front Is Crumbling
State politics show the coal industry is fighting a losing battle against its former allies.
July 22, 2020
Kate Aronoff
For Fossil Fuel Companies, Bankruptcy Is a Bailout
Declaring bankruptcy means executives pocket cash and workers lose livelihoods, while the public sector pays for environmental cleanup.
July 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Green Jobs Can Be Just as Good as Fossil Fuel Jobs
Certain leaders love to suggest that renewable power is anti-labor. The numbers don’t back that up.
July 20, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Our Towns Aren’t Equipped to Handle Climate Emergencies
Offices of emergency management across the country are a patchwork quilt of cash-strapped departments.
July 17, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Threat of a GOP That Accepts Climate Change
The Republican Party could be ready to discard climate denial. But you might not like what comes next.
July 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Why Is Biden Clinging to the Dream of Green Factories?
The candidate’s plan to “win the future” through American export domination has multiple problems.
July 9, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Limits of Democrats’ Climate Progress
The Unity Task Force climate recommendations are a huge improvement on policy proposals last election cycle. Now what?
July 8, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Obscure Treaty That Could Kill a Global Green Recovery
The Energy Charter Treaty, with 53 signatories, allows energy companies to sue states that make their business unprofitable.
July 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Anti-Pipeline Protesters Made the Fossil Fuel Industry Face Economic Reality
Energy companies have abandoned the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
July 1, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats’ New Climate Plan Is Weirdly Isolationist
A new 538-page report adopts an America First strategy to solve a global problem.
June 30, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Fed Is Bailing Out Polluters While Cities Struggle
Fossil fuel interests have readier access to stimulus money than many local governments.
June 26, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is BlackRock the New Vampire Squid?
The investment giant casts itself as socially responsible while contributing to the climate catastrophe, evading regulatory scrutiny, and angling to influence a Biden administration.
June 24, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Jamaal Bowman and the Democratic Insurgency That Could Help Save the Planet
Many establishment Democrats have failed to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis, but their challengers do.
June 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Turn Rikers Island Into a Solar Farm
A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.
June 17, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Inside the Fight to Shape Biden’s Climate Policy
The candidate’s official platform may matter less in the end than his appointments. Progressives are starting to suggest names.
June 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
One Quick Trick for Curbing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Political Influence
Nationalize them.
June 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Reactionary Unions Don’t Just Back Police. They Also Back Fossil Fuels.
The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?
June 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
BP Is Not Woke. It’s an Imperialist Success Story.
The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.

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