Averting a Clean Energy Recession

As America marks its 250th anniversary, one question looms large: What made the United States an energy superpower — and what will determine whether it stays one? This week, Political Climate welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author and S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin for a ...  Show more

Permitting reform has stalled in Congress for years — but a newly appointed senator with three decades of energy industry experience and nothing to prove politically may be in a position to finally help get it done. Senator Alan Armstrong (R-OK) came to Washington in March with a ...  Show more

Republicans will gather in Milwaukee starting today for the Republican National Convention. The convention will go on as planned following the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life. POLITICO’s Zack Colman previews the RNC messaging and how it will seek to tie energy to ...  Show more

Some Democratic allies are calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to select Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate to ease concerns from the fossil fuel industry and its workers, many of whom are in labor groups. POLITICO’s Josh Siegel and Jordan Wolman discuss how S ...  Show more

Sonia Aggarwal spent the early years of her career moving between nonprofits and the private sector, supporting renewable energy deployment. But after watching early climate policies fail in Washington D.C., she realized her energy modeling skills could better serve the clean ene ...  Show more

The incoming Trump administration is expected to gut a key piece of President Biden’s climate legacy: the Inflation Reduction Act. How will rolling this law back shape energy policy in the future? And what does this mean for the Paris Climate Accords? The Biden administration’s t ...  Show more