Paul Bledsoe for The New York Times:
"How to Limit Temperature Increases
in the Very Near Term"

If the years of devastating droughts, floods, heat waves and wildfires since the Paris climate agreement was adopted have taught us anything, it’s that we have underestimated the pace of extreme, destabilizing climate change.

The world has warmed by about 1.1 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels, much of it occurring since 1950, and the pace continues. That’s why it was so important that more than 100 countries joined a coalition led by the United States and the European Union last week to cut global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane by at least 30 percent by 2030.

But delegates meeting at a world climate conference in Glasgow have more to do: For the security of the planet, they need to act further and faster to limit near-term temperature increases.

How to Limit Temperature Increases
in the Very Near Term
by PPI's Paul Bledsoe,
Durwood Zaelke, & Gabrielle Dreyfus
for The New York Times

Will Marshall for New York Daily News:
Democrats must change course: Here are four steps to right the ship

The odd-year contests in Virginia and New Jersey often offer an early test of how voters think the incumbent president is doing and a foretaste of the public mood heading into the next year’s midterm elections. For Democrats, who did badly in both states last night, the message is clear: It’s time for a major course correction.

The Republican sweep of Virginia’s top offices, a year after President Biden’s 10-point victory there, was propelled by a host of factors. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe ran a generally negative and uninspiring campaign focused mainly on trying to depict Republican Glenn Youngkin as a Donald Trump clone.

It wasn't enough. Youngkin managed to keep the disgraced ex-president out of the state without antagonizing him or his zealous supporters.

ICYMI – Recently, the Progressive Policy Institute hosted an event with U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and a panel of energy experts, focused on expanding power line capacity to enable renewable energy deployment.

PPI's Strategic Climate Advisor Paul Bledsoe moderated the conversation and raised questions about how the US can improve its electric infrastructure to reach President Biden's clean energy goals.