Big news from the White House: climate emergency to be potentially declared as soon as this week. (washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…) We’ve written @rooseveltinst about some of the procedural hurdles that are cleared for strong executive action once an emergency is declared. (rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/p…) Indeed, executive powers could help build new industries like green…

Seems like a good day to re-up that the US Senate is the most countermajoritarian upper chamber among advanced democracies. (rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/f…) We ran the numbers on just how bad the Senate counter-majoritarian problem is. The tl;dr: it is bad, and getting worse. Let’s look at a few examples of inter-state…

This is a great set of announcements, rallying New Deal legacy authorities to meet the industrial and climate challenges of the present and future. It helps deliver on some of what @USProgressives called for earlier this year — using executive authorities like the Defense Production Act to jumpstart the green…

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. …