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Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Montana Kids Just Won Their Landmark Climate Lawsuit. Here’s Why.

Montana Kids Just Won Their Landmark Climate Lawsuit. Here’s Why.

Fossil fuel workers are dying inhaling gases – despite US warnings to big oil

Fossil fuel workers are dying inhaling gases – despite US warnings to big oil

Enabling Fossil Fuel Addiction: It's About More Than Money

Enabling Fossil Fuel Addiction: It's About More Than Money

Happy Earth Day: Let's Move Past the "Moral Case" for Fossil Fuels

Happy Earth Day: Let's Move Past the "Moral Case" for Fossil Fuels

Accountability Is The Most Important Climate Solution

Accountability Is The Most Important Climate Solution

Highlights from the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinformation Documents

Highlights from the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinformation Documents

Drilled Down: Manchin's Inflation Reduction Act—What's Good and Bad for Climate

Drilled Down: Manchin's Inflation Reduction Act—What's Good and Bad for Climate

Drilled Down: Debunking Demand (IPCC Mitigation Report, Part 1)

Drilled Down: Debunking Demand (IPCC Mitigation Report, Part 1)

Drilled Down: How Big Oil Created Corporate Free Speech, and Why It Matters Today

Drilled Down: How Big Oil Created Corporate Free Speech, and Why It Matters Today

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Dec
17
The Overton-Window-Sized Hole in Most "Moveable Middle" Strategies

The Overton-Window-Sized Hole in Most "Moveable Middle" Strategies

I was talking to some climate folks recently and wondered aloud about something I didn't think was particularly
6 min read
Dec
03
What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation

What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation

I haven't sent out a newsletter for a couple of weeks, partly because I'm working on
5 min read
Nov
08

On the Benefits of Changing One's Mind in Public

I've been thinking a lot lately about how zero-sum people tend to get about various messages in the
8 min read
Oct
14
De-fund the Tone Police

De-fund the Tone Police

When the stakes are high—a U.S. descent into fascism, genocide in Gaza, the specter of World War III,
7 min read
Oct
08
Conspiracies Thrive in a Crisis

Conspiracies Thrive in a Crisis

Last month during Climate Week in New York, Jennie King, the head of climate research and policy for the Institute
6 min read
Sep
29
On Climate Week and Toxic Positivity

On Climate Week and Toxic Positivity

Last week was New York Climate Week, which happens alongside the UN General Assembly every year, or as I overheard
6 min read
Sep
10
Why Can't We Just Tell the Truth About Fossil Fuels?

Why Can't We Just Tell the Truth About Fossil Fuels?

I went on a call-in radio show this weekend, the focus of which was climate in the next election. I
5 min read
Jul
22
Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA

Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA

If you browse the Internet or watch TV you've probably heard of Project 2025, the blueprint for a
13 min read
Jun
28
On Doom, Denial and Disinfo

On Doom, Denial and Disinfo

I spent this week at the Hollywood Climate Summit, talking to people about the role the PR industry has played
4 min read
Jun
09
Why Do Americans Feel Entitled to a Leadership Role on Climate?

Why Do Americans Feel Entitled to a Leadership Role on Climate?

I'll say it: in any global convening, the ones jockeying for power or money or attention or their
8 min read