Category: Climate change
US Justice Department sues Michigan to block climate change lawsuits
President Donald Trump’s administration is preemptively suing the state of Michigan to block climate change lawsuits against oil and gas companies.
How to Defuse the EU’s Carbon Tax Time Bomb
The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Energy costs and taxes are political dynamite, easily exploited by populist parties. And yet, the EU is set to introduce an economy-wide carbon price (ETS2) on … [continued]
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Mich. House votes to undo clean energy siting reforms
Renewable energy projects could lose their power to go around local zoning laws under bills that passed Wednesday in the Michigan House.
The Geopolitics Of Critical Minerals: China’s Grip & The West’s Response
Recently, I stood — virtually — before an audience of global institutional investors, invited by Jefferies investment bank to speak alongside six other experts on the deepening geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China and their implications. Amid this intense discussion, one of the central themes was the rapid return … [continued]
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From Darkness to Light: Iberia’s Rapid Grid Recovery Explained
On April 28, 2025, the Iberian Peninsula experienced a significant and sudden blackout, plunging large portions of Spain and Portugal into darkness and disrupting critical infrastructure for millions of people. The outage occurred at around midday, severing approximately 60% of the region’s electricity supply in seconds. The initial cause remains … [continued]
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