Joel Stronberg
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OIL COMPANIES and THE WINDFALLS OF WAR
Do oil companies and their investors have a paramount right to profits earned through no sweat of their brows over families who are forced to make decisions between food and fuel, between keeping the lights on and life-saving medicines? → Read More
What’s Wrong with Investing Your Environmental Values?
Many red states are willing to take the benefits of the largely Democratic climate agenda with one hand--bashing it with the other. A case in point is the attack by red state attorneys general over socially responsible investing, often referred to as ESG. → Read More
The 118th Congress and Climate and Clean Energy Policy
The 118th Congress is underway with most of the action on the House side in five days of voting for a new speaker and the passage of the rules package that will guide House leadership. What does it all mean for the clean energy and climate communities? → Read More
The Impact of the Midterm Elections on US Climate Policy
The 2022 midterm elections didn't turn out well for the GOP. The next Congress will most likely see a Republican House and a Democratic Senate. Was the election a sign of voter support for President Biden's agenda, including climate, or something else? → Read More
What Are Facts Anyway?
In the world of politics, the request for the facts is as often a prelude to prevarication as it is an entrée to enlightenment. What are facts, anyway? Who gets to decide what's fact and what's fancy? → Read More
Today’s Politics Are Tomorrow’s Climate Policies (2)
The article looks at the likely outcome of the 2022 Congressional elections and what it is likely to mean for US climate policy. It's fortunate that historic climate legislation was passed before the elections have taken place. → Read More
Today’s Politics Are Tomorrow’s Climate Policies
Can the Democrats hold onto their congressional majorities? If they lose control of either the House or Senate, what will the impact me on US climate policy? → Read More
THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT IS A NEW LEASE ON U.S. CLIMATE POLICY: LET’S NOT SCREW IT UP
I don’t believe anyone in the climate community anticipated the miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue, that is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Now that it's been passed the real work of implementation begins. Isn't it time to work together to make it happen? → Read More
West Virginia v. EPA: It’s Dé·jà Vu All Over Again
The decision in West Virginia v. EPA is as important for what it doesn’t say as for what it does. Although the Supreme Court left in tack many of EPA’s regulatory powers, it limited its regulatory reach on existing stationary sources of greenhouse gases. → Read More
The Greatest Crisis Facing the Nation May Not Be Climate Change (2)
There are no shades of gray in today’s politics. It means that most policy discussions are binary — red or blue — and incapable of compromise. It shouldn’t be that way. If it continues this way, the consequences will be enormous. → Read More
The Greatest Crisis Facing the Nation May Not Be Climate Change
What good is having a cure if it can't be administered? → Read More
Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?
The rulemaking process shouldn’t be overlooked as an opportunity for collaboration. Even if US climate policy doesn’t adequately reflect the magnitude and urgency of Earth’s warming, the federal regulatory process can be made ready for when it does. → Read More
Climate Policy in a Republican World
Is the recent report by the Republican Energy, Climate, and Conservation Task Force (ECC) empaneled by House Minority Leader McCarthy what to expect should Republican re-take Congress and the presidency? → Read More
Will Joe Save the Union and What It Means for US Climate Policy
The one piece of actual climate-related legislation that history will record as part of Biden’s legacy is the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) popularly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF). Will it really work out that way? → Read More
Is What Went Before Enough to Save U.S. Climate Policy?
The worst for US climate policy may be on the horizon as the Supreme Court readies its opinion in West Virginia v EPA. It could set US policy back a half century. The Court's decision in Roe v Wade shows its willingness to take big steps backwards. → Read More
Will Putin’s War Be the Last Fought Over Fossil Fuels or Just the Next In Line?
President Biden’s current "I Didn’t Do It Tour" is a misreading and serious misunderstanding of American voters. Respondents to a recent poll have blamed the rising price of a gallon of gas where it belongs — on Vlad the Mad and the oil interests. → Read More
On Climate Policy—What Should We Have Expected of the Biden Presidency?
The battle for needed climate legislation is not quite over. The Democrats are looking to find chunks of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) that might be passed as stand-alone legislation or as part of a yet-again watered-down reconciliation package. → Read More
Has Build Back Better Become Build Back Never? What Does It Mean for US Climate Policy?
My first prediction of what to look for in 2022 in terms of US climate policy is -- West Virginia will play a prominent role both in Congress and the US Supreme Court. → Read More
Is President Biden’s Climate Agenda Toast? What Do You Know, Joe?
Why do you suppose Representative Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, accused Senator Manchin of betraying his commitment not only to the President and Democrats in Congress but most importantly, to the American people? → Read More
What’s Next for Biden’s Build Back Better Act?
What federal dysfunction and warfare within and between the parties mean for climate policy and the transition to a low carbon economy is what it always means—major advancements will rely on state and local actions, e.g., cities and counties. → Read More