Today’s WaPo has a deeply reported story by @StevenMufson and @partlowj on one of the most important environmental and economic challenges of the coming decades: decarbonizing heavy industry. With inputs from @SashaLyutse @NRDC @BGAlliance @bensonel @CSIS @MachinistsUnion and more. As they report, the hold up at the moment to making…

NEW @rooseveltinst report, NEW @monkeycageblog post: What do Biden’s 1,300 pages of supply chain reports tell us about the future of (green) industrial policy? 🧵 (washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…) First, many of the supply chains that are key to U.S. energy security go through China. Addressing this requires that a wide host of…

Big announcements coming out of the White House today on decarbonization of the industrial sector. It’s the clearest indication yet the US will not only reduce imports of dirty steel, but will also push domestic industry to green its production. (whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…) The deal to cut dirty imports was announced last…

This “long pandemic year” (2020–21) has been brutal in many respects, but there were also some important gains worth celebrating. Here’s my late-to-the-party “year end” recap / reasons for optimism / shoutout / gratitude thread. First, the US at long last openly adopted the need for the types of industrial…

At the Year One mark for Biden and a gridlocked Congress, it’s time to turn to executive powers to address the climate crisis and other pressing needs. Ergo, I give to you our latest @RooseveltInst brief on the Defense Production Act. Thread👇 (rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/p…) The DPA was first passed in 1950…

The politics of trade and climate are changing and coming into line with one another, as this new reporting by @AnaSwanson @nytimes shows. Here is @AmbassadorTai, explaining why pivoting from Trumpism is necessary, but why simple reversion to pre-Trump trade policy is not an option. …

The announcement of a new US-EU (and potentially global) green steel deal is excellent news. Steel and aluminum are among the biggest carbon emitting industries, and also support good union jobs. US-EU cooperation to green these industries is a win for the climate and a win for workers. Importantly, this…

I appreciated that @ChadBown and @D_A_Irwin did something here that few in international economic policy debates do: attempt to respond to a new policy demand that does not comport with their priors / preferred toolkit. …

Disappointing piece on carbon pricing by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the WTO, for a few reasons. (ft.com/content/b0bcc9…) First, director-generals need to be choosy about which topics to get out ahead of members on. For many countries like the US, Switzerland, Australia, and others, domestic carbon pricing is not politically viable…