Billionaires love oil and gas

The competition between the United States and China to sell the world their wares has serious consequences for the health of the planet.

in 2009, the Obama administration began offering loan guarantees to emerging energy technologies. Tesla got $456 million, a loan that proved crucial to its later success.

The world’s first wind farm was built in New Hampshire nearly 50 years ago. Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House in 1979.

The Trump administration has dismissed those concerns. The United States energy secretary, Chris Wright, a former natural gas executive, has described climate change as “a side effect of building the modern world.”

Burning fossil fuels for more than 200 years has helped create the modern world while delivering great prosperity to developed countries such as the United States, which ranks historically as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. But it has also led to what scientists now say is a growing crisis. The carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by... See more

By 2035, solar and wind power are expected to become the two largest sources of electricity production, surpassing coal and natural gas, according to the International Energy Agency.

1. Use your millions to commandeer a coterie of seemingly unrelated PACs, each with their own special conservative pet issue,


2. Have these PACs distribute mailer campaigns that create a web of disinformation to create an illusion of broad support for your puppet candidate of choice, and


3. Wield this influence to effectively buy Republican primaries for

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With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.