Carl Pope
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New York, Washington and Boston look at free public buses. As they should.
Those who complain that the price tag is too high aren’t looking at the costs of keeping things as they are. → Read More
Rethinking Trade, Steel and Climate
What's needed is a complete overhaul of the global trading system, so that trading rules encourage countries to use better technology, higher standards and fair sharing of profits with workers. In the specific context of tariffs on steel and aluminum, a Climate Club might constitute a major breakthrough, and a better alternative to a trade war. → Read More
Coastal Protection: A Bipartisan Moment For Resistance?
By proposing to give the oil industry absolute priority over the rest of society, and open 90 percent of America’s coastal waters to oil drilling, the Tr... → Read More
Ripping Families Apart: American Greatness?
Cruel and revolting are the two words that stick with me as I revisit in my mind the Trump administration proposal to separate infants and young children... → Read More
Who Needs A Break: The Trump Vision
Donald Trump has not built a border wall with Mexico, slapped punitive trade barriers on China, revived American coal mining jobs, drained the lobbyist s... → Read More
COP23: We Are All in the Same Canoe
The prime minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, is the official host of this year's UN Climate Summit, COP 23. But we're meeting in a cold, rainy small city in Germany, Bonn, not the sunny tropics of Fiji. Logistics dictates that. → Read More
COP 23: We Are All In The Same Canoe
The Prime Minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, is the official host of this year’s UN Climate Summit, COP 23. But we’re meeting in a cold, rainy sma... → Read More
America Is Doubling Down on Climate Progress
Whether their state governments are leading on climate or not, America's cities, where most climate pollution originates, are embracing a decarbonized future. → Read More
Carl Pope: Why Donald Trump Is Going After Our National Monuments
"Zinke will announce his recommendations on August 24 for the potential elimination of more than two dozen monuments comprising more than 8.8 million acres of land." → Read More
Subsidizing The Fossil Fuel End Game
Always remember, the world’s richest governments are throwing taxpayer money at well-connected oil, gas and coal companies. → Read More
Subsidizing The Fossil Fuel End Game
Always remember, the world’s richest governments are throwing taxpayer money at well-connected oil, gas and coal companies. → Read More
The World's Strongest Economies Are Helping Big Carbon's Effort to Postpone the Climate Reckoning
"Recent analysis shows that $60 billion a year is still flowing from 12 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development members to oil, gas and coal producers, in a variety of forms, particularly export credits to encourage emerging markets to purchase oil, gas and coal technologies and equipment." → Read More
John McCain May Have Saved The Republican Party
A "yes" vote on the GOP health plan would have exposed his party to far greater catastrophe than we see today. → Read More
The Isolation of Donald Trump
Sunday's New York Times headline about the G20 meeting in Hamburg was revealing, but inaccurate: World leaders Move Forward on Climate Change: Without the U.S. → Read More
Attack on Mark Jacobson's 100% Renewable Energy Plan Is Misguided
The last week has seen a flood of stories on clean energy's prospects—stories that make your head spin with their conflicting tales of renewable energy's prospects → Read More
Thank You Trump for Making Climate a Breaking News Story
Donald Trump has done what Al Gore, Jim Hansen, climate scientists, the Sierra Club and the rest of the environmental movement could never do—make climate disruption breaking cable TV news. → Read More
More Diesel Cheating ... It's Time to Say Goodbye to the Internal Combustion Engine
Will this crisis shake Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne's long standing bet against history against the replacement of the internal combustion engine by EV's → Read More
More Diesel Cheating ... It's Time to Say Goodbye to the Internal Combustion Engine
Will this crisis shake Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne's long standing bet against history against the replacement of the internal combustion engine by EV's → Read More
Marchinonne's Bet Against History
The news that Fiat-Chrysler is the latest auto-maker caught having massively – and probably illegally – exceeded allowable emission levels for its diesel... → Read More
George Orwell's 'Memory Hole' Is Alive and Well in the GOP
"The memory hole is not only wide but gapingly deep—almost a cosmological black-hole into which the GOP hopes the entire history of its assault on President Obama, along with conservatism's previous principals, will be sucked, unable to escape." — Carl Pope → Read More