No Climate, No Deal: Biden Needs to Sing the Blu’s
In the end, I commend my mother’s words to President Biden–words I myself should have paid more attention to—there are things in this world better left unsaid—at least for the moment.
American politics
No Climate, No Deal: For Real?
The running joke in Capital City for the past four and a half years is that every week is infrastructure week. It’s agreed by both Republicans and Democrats that US infrastructure is in woeful condition.
Voting Rights and Climate Policy—Not as Odd a Couple as You Might Think
Some things just seem to go together–Bogey and Bacall—for example. There are other things—voting rights legislation and the future of national climate policy—not so much.
Infrastructure Negotiations and the Fate of National Climate Policy—Will There Be a Chance to Make a Second Impression?
Until trust and civility are restored, governing the nation will continue to be beyond anyone’s grasp. Talk about an unsustainable environment.
US Climate Policy Caught Between Two Worlds—Are We Smarter Than Buridan’s Ass?
Are fossil fuels and clean energy alternatives equally attractive choices as Aristotle’s food and water, Al-Ghazali’s dates, or Buridan’s bales of hay?
The Truth Be Damned and What It Means for the Future of US Climate Policy
We know what climate and clean energy policies by presidential order mean for the nation—a perpetual cycle of feast and famine that creates uncertainty in the marketplace and crowded court calendars.
Negotiating the Future of US Climate Policy
In the final analysis, I believe the fate of Biden’s Job Plan will be left to the President and the American people to decide. Will they choose to build back to the future or the past? Only time will tell.
Climate Policy in a Binary World: Uttering and Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Under common law, uttering is when a person offers as genuine a forged instrument with the intent to defraud.
A Very Uncivil Notion: Climate Activism and the Party of Trump
It may sound strange to suggest the fate of President Biden’s climate agenda will parallel that of Liz Cheney, Wyoming’s at-large Republican congressional representative, but hear me out.
Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation
Today, Americans have sorted ourselves into communities defined by geography, demography, ideology— and opportunities to communicate across those divides are exceedingly rare. But the shared trauma of flooding offers an opening.
America’s Conflicted Landscapes
Does nature represent eternity, ancestors, science, the present, the future, or a young earth? Is it to be revered, conserved, exploited, or sacrificed? A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.
The Affairs of States: In the Greening of America (Part 2)
In a more perfect union, the federal government would be a better partner with state and local governments in the effort to slow, forestall, and adapt to Earth’s changing climate.