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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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June 9, 2023
Kate Aronoff
How New York State Could Unlock Billions for Climate Finance
A bill being considered in Albany could fundamentally change the rules for private creditors—and stop them from milking poorer countries for money.
June 8, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Smoke Is Fine, Longtime Tobacco and Coal Shill Assures Fox News Viewers
For reasons passing understanding, Steve Milloy has been invited to share his opinion on the East Coast's air quality crisis.
June 7, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Meet the GOP’s Pro–Childhood Asthma Caucus
Congressional Republicans are trying to pass legislation defending gas stoves from regulatory oversight.
June 1, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Exxon CEO Says ESG Is Good, Actually
Has one of the world’s biggest oil and gas drillers gone woke?
May 30, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Ron DeSantis Threatens to “Make America Florida”
The GOP hopeful’s climate denial papers over a horrifying reality in his home state.
May 24, 2023
Kate Aronoff
80 Percent of Shell Shareholders Vote to Let the World Burn
This is why we shouldn’t trust businesses to save the planet.
May 22, 2023
Kate Aronoff
The Republicans’ Debt Ceiling Trap
In exchange for not blowing up the economy, the GOP is asking for expedited pipeline approval, and pretending it will help clean energy as well.
May 17, 2023
Kate Aronoff
What the Hell Is Going On at the Sierra Club?
The progressive organization now faces two National Labor Relations Board charges and widespread criticism from staff, following chaotic layoffs.
May 15, 2023
Kate Aronoff
The U.S. Created This Migration Crisis. Here’s How to Fix It.
It doesn’t involve more border patrol. Instead, policymakers need to address climate change and decades of bad U.S. foreign policy.
May 11, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Truly Losing Their Minds Over ESG
Right-wingers at a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday insisted this boring investment strategy is some kind of global conspiracy.
May 9, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Cars Are Deadly Weapons
What happened in Brownsville is yet to be determined. The figures on vehicular fatalities, however, are clear.
May 4, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Green New Deal Advocates Just Won Big in New York. Here’s How They Did It.
Passing the Build Public Renewables Act into the state budget took years of organizing and canny political strategy to build support for public renewable energy generation.
May 2, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Private Jets Are a Moral Abomination
What do Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein, Clarence Thomas, and Kendall Roy all have in common? Toxic travel habits!
May 1, 2023
Kate Aronoff
The Fossil Fuel Industry Needs an FDIC
Unlike First Republic Bank, struggling drillers don’t have a government safety net to keep them from passing their crises on to the public.
April 28, 2023
Kate Aronoff
The Chevy Bolt’s Death Is a Bad Sign for Biden’s Climate Plan
A nation of electric SUVs won’t solve our problems.
April 26, 2023
Kate Aronoff
How the EPA Could Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bluff
The agency’s plan to regulate power plant emissions reportedly will lean on a carbon-trapping technology that the industry has been touting—but barely using—for years.
April 21, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Why Republicans Want to Keep Free Money Out of Their Districts
The GOP wants to cut 24 clean energy tax credits—that disproportionately benefit Republican districts.
April 18, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Is Jimmy Carter Where Environmentalism Went Wrong?
Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.
April 14, 2023
Kate Aronoff
Fossil Fuel Executives Are War Profiteers
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created record profits for fossil fuel companies—and their CEOs.
April 12, 2023
Kate Aronoff
These Elite Universities Have a Fossil Fuel Problem
For years, oil companies have funded some of the top climate scientists at Ivy League universities. But as scandals accumulate, maybe that will start to change.

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