General Electric’s Coal Plant Profiteering Needs to End Now
The U.S.-based giant General Electric (GE), wants to carry on quietly with business activities that seriously endanger millions of people and the planet. GE is ...
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America Should Export Clean Energy, Not Climate Chaos
As Congress revisits America’s foreign development strategies, it should steer away from Trump’s misguided approach that will promote dirty energy and more ...
Japan G20 Lacked Ambition on Climate Change & Coal Phaseout
Leading up to the 2019 G20 summit in Osaka, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised “firm leadership” and “disruptive innovation” on climate change....
Ensuring the US Export-Import Bank Reflects American Values
On the cusp of America’s entry into World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated the “ four freedoms ” as the aims for the entry of the United States into...
G20 Coal Subsidies: Government Support to a Fading Industry
Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear in its special report that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require a rapid pha...
G20 in Japan: Time for PM Abe to End Support for Coal Plants
If instead Prime Minister Abe continues using Japan’s taxpayer money to subsidize inefficient Japanese coal equipment manufacturers, then he risks being brand...