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This article was jointly produced by Foreign Policy In Focus and In These Times. The first month of the Biden presidency was a flurry of climate action, sweeping away the openly denialist intransigence of the Trump administration. After re-entering the Paris Agreement and canceling the Keystone XL pipeline on Day 1, President Biden swiftly rolled out an array of climate-related executive orders calling on all agencies to factor climate into their work. Top among them was an order to ​“center the climate crisis in U.S. foreign policy and national security.” As part of this order, offi...

NationofChange Could Biden’s climate policy invite more militarism? Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn’t mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon. The first month of the Biden presidency was a flurry of climate action, sweeping away the openly denialist intransigence of the Trump administration. After re-entering the Paris Agreement and canceling the Keystone XL pipeline on Day 1, President Biden swiftly rolled out an array of climate-related executive orders calling on all agencies to factor climate into their work. Top among ...

Social movements can push the U.S. to adopt a binding climate agreement and to prioritize the needs of the Global South.

Texas’ blackouts may come at a steep cost Especially for people who struggle with energy bills year-round Share this story Photo by Matthew Busch / AFP via Getty Images As the lights begin to turn back on after nearly a week of outages across Texas, residents who already struggled to pay their utility bills might find it harder to recover. Costs are piling up that could continue to limit some people’s access to heating and electricity even after blackouts end. “The ‘heat or eat dilemma’ is a really, really significant issue.” “The ‘heat or eat dilemma’ is a really, really s...

February 15, 2021 On Saturday, Feb. 13, Community Water Justice, a group dedicated to combating water privatization in Maine, held a protest in Fryeburg in response to the news that Nestle S.A., the Swiss food and drink processing corporation, was in negotiations with One Rock Capital Partners LLC, a New York-based private equity firm, for the sale of a number of Nestle’s bottled water brands, including the Poland Spring brand and its nine springs in the state. While Mainers should not necessarily have to worry about a Wall Street firm pillaging their aquifers, the public anxiety surroundin...