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This month, Jeff Nesbit, the Deputy Commissioner for Communications for the Social Security Administration, authored a “Dear Colleague” letter asking for funding in order to “provide timely and quality service.”

In a powerful new three-part docuseries, the oil industry is put on trial as the extent of climate change awareness is revealed

Booklist Online Book Review: Core Collection: Facing Climate Change. <ParaStyle:By

Jeff Nesbit is the author of Poison Tea, which exposed for the first time the close ties between the tobacco industry and Koch donor network front groups. He once helped lead efforts by the FDA to regulate cigarettes.

Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.

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Skip to main content Currently Reading China finances most coal plants built today - its a climate problem and why US-China talks are essential Jeff Nesbit, Yale University FacebookTwitterEmail Jeff Nesbit, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants? Ch...

Jeff Nesbit is a research affiliate with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications and executive director of Climate Nexus, a non-profit organization that works on climate and clean energy issues and solutions. He was the director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation during the Bush and Obama administrations, where he helped craft the legislative and public affairs strategy that led to the passage of the bipartisan America COMPETES Act. He was also former...

Skip to main content Currently Reading China finances most coal plants built today - its a climate problem and why US-China talks are essential Jeff Nesbit, Yale University FacebookTwitterEmail Jeff Nesbit, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants? Ch...

The Biden administration plans to ratchet up the country’s own commitments to reducing emissions while pressing emerging economies such as China and India to curtail construction of coal-fired plants and Brazil to preserve more of the Amazon.