California's message to UN Climate Conference: We're still in The U.N. Climate Conference in Azerbaijan wraps up Friday. And as questions swirl about the role of the U.S. in climate negotiations ahead of Donald Trump's second term, a California delegation has ... 11/22/2024 - 5:48 pm | View Link
Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change? If these are indeed signs that China plans to take a more central role in the future, just as the US is stepping back, it would mark a tectonic shift in the COP process. 11/22/2024 - 3:36 am | View Link
How will China impact the future of climate change? You might be surprised As a new Trump administration signals a retreat on climate action, China is stepping up. China is the biggest producer of climate technologies like electric vehicles and solar panels. 11/22/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Here’s How Big Oil Guides Global Climate Negotiations Exxon and the oil industry have been embedded in the United Nations’ annual climate negotiation process for decades. 11/21/2024 - 11:59 pm | View Link
How politics pushed businesses to fight climate change quietly The polarized election year exacerbated the trend of ‘greenhushing.’ Not long ago, businesses and investors liked to brag about their commitments to reduce their climate-warming greenhouse gas ... 11/20/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
“Elon and I disagree on some things, but Elon deserves his place at the table. He stroked a $150 million check for the ground game, which is not sexy, at the exact moment we needed it. He came in with the money and the professionals. To be brutally frank, it’s the reason we won.”
— Steve Bannon, in an interview with Puck.
“Democrats suffered a knockout punch in this month’s elections. New Jersey’s and Virginia’s off-year gubernatorial elections in 2025 offer them their first chances to get off the mat,” ABC News reports.
“Both states have become reliably blue in federal races, but President-elect Donald Trump narrowed his margins in each state, and Democrats are unable to take anything for granted as they undergo a postelection reckoning over their national brand.
ProPublica: “If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs, it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say, could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.”
“North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday vetoed a Hurricane Helene relief bill that also included sweeping changes to the power and authority structures for several state leaders and agencies,” the Raleigh News & Observer reports.
Playbook: “Republicans can still override Cooper’s veto, but they have no wiggle room, and the outcome looks uncertain.”
“President-elect Donald Trump’s team is discussing pursuing direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, hoping a fresh diplomatic push can lower the risks of armed conflict,“ Reuters reports.
“Several in Trump’s team now see a direct approach from Trump, to build on a relationship that already exists, as most likely to break the ice with Kim, years after the two traded insults and what Trump called ‘beautiful’ letters in an unprecedented diplomatic effort during his first term in office.”
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: “New research suggests that the Democrats’ struggles in communities battling fentanyl addiction had little to do with economic theory or messaging — it was, more simply, a failure of political attention.”