Fossil Fuels

Vast Subsidies Keeping the Fossil Fuel Industry Afloat Should be Put to Better Use

Capitalism has often been identified as the underlying cause of the climate crisis. A leading voice on the subject is Naomi Klein, one of the climate movements most influential thinkers, whose seminal book on climate change was subtitled...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Biden’s strategy for cutting carbon emissions from electricity generation could extend the lives of fossil fuel power plants

On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration proposed new regulations to curb carbon pollution from existing power plants. The new rules replace the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed in 2015 but ran into multiple l...

Jennifer K. Rushlow Dean, Vermont School for the Environment, and Professor of Law, Vermont Law & Graduate School·11 months ago