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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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October 1, 2010
Cuba
Regulating Oil Drilling in Cuba
Cliff Krauss’s otherwise excellent article in the New York Times yesterday on the safety risks from Cuban oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico had one big and important omission: it said nothing about …
June 20, 2012
Fossil Fuels
The Odd Politics of Drilling on Public Lands
I’m in Ohio this week talking to people about the Utica shale boom. I’ll have more to say later, but right now, I want to share an interesting bit of one conversation I had yesterday. I was talking …
May 13, 2015
Fossil Fuels
The Environmental and Climate Stakes in Arctic Oil Drilling
On Monday, the Obama administration gave Shell conditional permission to move forward with Arctic oil drilling. The New York Times captures a common sentiment well in identifying this as a “tricky in…
March 19, 2024
United States
The President’s Inbox Recap: The Crisis at the U.S. Southern Border
The U.S. immigration system needs comprehensive reform.
January 8, 2013
Fossil Fuels
Drilling into the American Energy Boom, in Four Charts
One interesting feature of the U.S. hydrocarbon boom is the widening gap between the industry’s interest in drilling for oil and other liquids versus dry natural gas. It’s all about economics: the di…
