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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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February 12, 2015
Fossil Fuels
A Must Read New Book on Oil, Finance, and Economic History
In 1863, with the first American oil boom “at full tilt”, Andrew Carnegie had an epiphany: the world would soon run out of oil. He and a partner “decided to dig an enormous hole, capable of holding 1…
August 17, 2015
Cuba
Did The Kerry Visit To Cuba Matter?
Secretary of State Kerry traveled to Havana to raise the flag at the U.S. Embassy there last week. As has been noted here in this blog and in many news articles and columns, no dissidents or human ri…
March 9, 2011
Mexico
TWE Remembers: Pancho Villa’s Raid on Columbus, New Mexico
The events in Columbus, New Mexico had a back story. It began five years earlier when Porfirio Díaz was pushed out as president (more accurately, dictator) of Mexico after thirty-five years in power…
December 19, 2015
Cuba
Cuban Political Prisoners Measure the Impact of Obama’s Cuba Policy
This past week marked the anniversary of President Obama’s new Cuba policy. That policy is failing to produce any human rights improvements in Cuba. So this week, 126 Cuban former political prisoner…
April 25, 2018
Mexico
The Coming Presidential Elections in Mexico: Will López Obrador maintain the Lead?
This is a guest post by Isidro Morales, a professor of the School of Government at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Santa Fe (Mexico City) campus. On Sunday April 22, the first of three presidential deba…
