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Carl Pope

Carl Pope is the co-author of "Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet." He is the former CEO and chairman of the Sierra Club.

Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

McCarthy pushes US to brink of default to appease energy donors — but Biden has an ace up his sleeve

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Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Kevin McCarthy’s first legislative farce: The “Lower Energy Costs Act” is a fossil-fuel scam

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Al Gore speaks during the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit (SCIS) of the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 07, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

GOP mocked Al Gore as “Ozone Man”: But he was right the whole time — and they knew it

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The world's first hydrogen energy urban train rolls off the assembly line at a branch of CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd on Dec. 28, 2022, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. (Liu Zhongjun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Hydrogen made a surprising comeback in 2022 — but it’s still not the green fuel of the future

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This combination of photos shows participants snoozing during the closing session of the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre in Egypt. (Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images)

COP27 ends with no emissions agreement: The oil era is ending anyway — because it must

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The F-150 Lightning is positioned to be the first full-size all-electric pickup truck to go on sale in the mainstream U.S. market. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

California’s ban on gas-powered vehicles: Huge victory in the 50-year war for the electric car

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Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

After Biden’s climate bill: Three big steps toward America’s energy transition

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Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

It’s the perfect moment for a clean-energy future: But war and greed are getting in the way

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A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

Western embargoes of Russian gas offer a real shot at a post-carbon future

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US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about on the third plank of his Build Back Better economic recovery plan for working families, on July 21, 2020, in New Castle, Delaware. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

If Congress can pass it, Build Back Better could be a second “Green New Deal”

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks during an event with the Economic Club of Washington at the Capitol Hilton Hotel October 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

What Joe Manchin wants

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Alok Sharma (centre) President of the Cop26 climate summit, speaks during an informal stock taking plenary session, during an 'overun' day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Saturday November 13, 2021. (Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)

The surprisingly hopeful moral of the UN climate summit

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents his national statement on day two of COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2021 sees the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. (Alastair Grant - Pool/Getty Images)

Want to make energy cheap? Build renewables fast, not gradually

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Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

Is there an “energy crisis”? Not really — fossil fuels are collapsing, and it’s high time

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Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and Tip O'Neill (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tip O’Neill’s “bipartisan” politics are long gone — but Democrats can still forge a path forward

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Damage in the city of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, near montegut, Louisiana on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - The death toll from Hurricane Ida was expected to climb "considerably," Louisiana's governor warned Monday, as rescuers combed through the "catastrophic" damage wreaked as it tore through the southern United States as a Category 4 storm. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Why did Ida cause so much less damage than Katrina? Because government did its job

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Mute swan in lake (Getty Images/James Warwick)

Alfie the New Jersey mute swan avoids the death penalty — but there’s a better way

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ExxonMobil (Filip Radwanski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Climate tipping point? ExxonMobil’s shareholder revolt and the end of the line for fossil fuels

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Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Austerity or stagnation? Faced with Biden’s ambitious infrastructure bill, GOP wants both

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Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden’s Earth Day breakthrough: The best week for climate policy in recent history

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Joe Biden (Getty Images)

Biden’s massive infrastructure bill: The biggest public investment most of us will ever see

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Mitch McConnell and John Calhoun (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

White supremacy and the filibuster: From John C. Calhoun to Mitch McConnell

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A highway worker tries to shield himself while walking to his truck in Lubbock, Texas. (John Weast/Getty Images)

Why Texas froze (and California fried): This disaster was 90 years in the making

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US President Joe Biden speaks before signing executive orders on health care, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden and the climate crisis: What a difference two weeks makes

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