Energy Subsidies

If Elon Musk and DOGE want to cut $2 trillion in spending, handouts to the fossil fuel industry are "a truth test to all of their messaging."

The scion of the Kennedy political dynasty is drawing attacks from both Democrats and Republicans — and from his former environmental allies, who call him "no different than Donald Trump."

For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to kill.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference will be a sober reckoning on our greenhouse gas emissions—but there are still some signs the world is making strides.

Huge legal, political, and economic obstacles stand in the way of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 C

Significant hurdles lie ahead of the G20's renewable energy target agreed in New Delhi last weekend, but the ambitious goal is feasible, experts say.

The bulk of the G20's subsidies were aimed at consumers in a bid to contain the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine

President's pricey energy policies have crushed the budgets of ordinary Americans. Bidenomics has cost a typical American family an extra $2,800 per year.

The current U.S. economic agenda has dangerously neglected the question of global order.

Instead of cutting key climate programs to address California's budget deficit, environmental advocates want to slash fossil fuel subsidies.

European Union countries failed on Monday to agree on planned new rules for the bloc's power market, having clashed over a proposal to extend subsidies for coal plants under the reform, and a push to expand state aid for other power plants.

In Washington, emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that EPA and oil interests collaborated to manipulate computer models used to certify fuel emissions and set standards, say authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante in their explosive new chronicle of  the"stranglehold on the motor fuel market. They contend it led to consumer gasoline […]

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is set to unveil her energy plan if voted into office, which includes bolstering U.S. oil production and an emphasis on strong foreign policy.

So where might we be headed instead?

Despite Germany's last-ditch attempt at realism, the European Union recently approved a 2035 ban on gas-powered cars, moving ahead with its "net zero" emissions...

"The climate time-bomb is ticking," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. But the IPCC report also provided a road map for defusing it.

World leaders recently announced a $20 billion deal to help get Indonesia off coal power. But there are doubts about the deal, because -for one thing- the country is building brand new coal plants.

Cameroon spent 3% of its gross domestic product subsidizing fuel and gas to curb its citizens' rising energy costs in 2022, a share six times bigger than the previous year.

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders who persist in backing new fossil fuel projects despite science warnings that this will push temperatures across the planet to dangerous highs.

Bulawayo, Nov 07 (IPS) - Africa is counting on COP27 to deliver it from climate change. But will it?