Alexander Kaufman is a senior reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. He covers climate change, energy, and environmental policy. A two-time winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, he has filed stories from the Arctic and the Amazon, Europe and East Asia. He has provided expert commentary on MSNBC, BBC, NPR and broadcasters around the world. Before joining HuffPost in 2014, he worked for The Boston Globe, the International Business Times and The Wrap. Reach him at 917-606-4668 or alexander.kaufman@huffpost.com.
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Biden Faces First Major Climate Protest As President
Sunrise Movement, the youth campaigners behind the Green New Deal, are set to rally at the White House.
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Jane Goodall: If We Don’t Make Peace With Nature, Expect More Deadly Pandemics
The famed primatologist spent the quarantine broadcasting to the world about the threat of climate change, zoonotic disease and biodiversity loss.
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How California Is Keeping Electric Vehicles Out Of Reach For Apartment-Dwellers
Even in the nation's most EV-friendly state, inertia and business interests are delaying the energy transition and leaving the working class behind.
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Is This A Turning Point For Big Oil?
Three oil giants suffered separate blows in one day, marking what one analyst called “the start of a new era” for the industry.
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Top Scientist Cuts Ties With National Lab After It Invited A Climate Denier To Speak
A federal research facility’s prioritizing a politically connected darling of right-wing media over its own star scientist shows climate denialism’s lasting power.
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How New York Could Build Publicly Owned Electricity Without Taking Over Dirty Plants
A candidate for New York City comptroller has a novel idea for a municipally owned solar utility in a city with little space for giant panel farms.
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New Survey Finds Surprisingly High Percentage Of Unionized Solar Jobs
COVID-19 took a toll on solar employment, but compensation is now comparable to other energy industry jobs, according to a new report.
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Cleaner ‘Bridge’ Fuels Are Killing Up To 46,000 Americans Per Year, Study Shows
Replacing coal with fuels like natural gas and wood may offer some climate benefits, but the harm to public health remains.
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How Arizona's Attorney General Is Weaponizing Climate Fears To Keep Out Immigrants
As the right grapples with what comes after climate denial, a Copper State lawsuit suggests creeping 'eco-fascism' in Europe may be a model.
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John Kerry’s Climate Warning: 'Even If We Get To Net Zero, We Need Carbon Removal'
The little-noticed remark came during a finance session of President Biden's big Earth Day climate summit.
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Biden Pledges U.S. Will Cut Climate-Changing Pollution At Least In Half By 2030
The new target for limiting planet-warming pollution nearly doubles Obama's goal, highlighting how much time to act was lost during the Trump years.
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5 Things To Watch For At Biden’s Big Earth Day Climate Summit
As 40 top world leaders gather online for the first big climate confab since 2019, here are the key policies and political dynamics for which to keep an eye out.
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As States Thwart Climate Progress, Progressives Pitch A Lifeline To Green Cities
Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are pitching a Green New Deal for local governments.
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For 25 Years, Taxpayers Picked Up Polluters’ Superfund Bill. That May Finally Change.
Fees on oil producers and petrochemical companies once funded toxic waste cleanups. Republicans let them expire in 1995. Democrats want them back.
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Here's What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like
A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work.
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Biden Avoids Big Test As Battery Giants Reach Deal To Save Georgia Factories
Without an eleventh-hour deal, the president faced a choice between green jobs in a battleground state and taking a tough stance on intellectual property.
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India Demands Rich Nations Like The U.S. Clean Up Their Climate Mess, Signaling A Shift
It’s time for developed countries responsible for most of the carbon in the air to not just cut emissions but remove them, India’s energy minister said.
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Biden Wants 5 Times The Climate Spending Obama Won. That’s Still 5 Times Too Small.
In a private call with activists, the White House acknowledged the package would disappoint some advocates, but hoped for "hype" anyway.
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Biden Administration Boosts Wind And Solar Ambitions Ahead Of Infrastructure Push
The U.S. currently has 42 megawatts of offshore wind online. The Biden administration just set a goal of deploying 30,000 megawatts by 2030.
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Democrats Prepare To Push Biden For A $10 Trillion, Decade-Long Green Infrastructure Plan
As Republicans seek to shrink the White House's $3 trillion package, some powerful Democrats are laying out an even more ambitious vision.