The VP debate was a good opportunity for me to write about something I'd been meaning to get to: how the GOP's current opposition to addressing climate change depends upon their successful efforts to block clean energy a decade ago. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
During the vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance presented the right’s new case for not taking climate change seriously — a new case that rests on the old case.
Vance also invoked the Republican talking points that have been standard operating procedure for years. Here’s my take from January 2023 (and it still holds): www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
There are clear areas of disagreement but also opportunities for collaboration on climate change in the new Republican controlled congress.
The clean energy equivalent of a person being on trial for murdering their parents and calling for mercy because they're an orphan!
Is there anything suspicious or corrupt about Reagan removing Carter's solar panels from the White House? I remember as a young person who cared about the environment being outraged, but I don't really know if there's more sinister action behind the decision.