Outlook 2024: Toward a realistic US energy and climate strategy
A realistic, yet forward-looking, energy and climate strategy is possible if US policymakers can eschew ideological divides in favour of a durable political compromise
It is inarguable that the US has emerged as a global energy superpower over the last decade. Even so, partisan disunity has left the US without a coherent energy and climate strategy suitable for the world’s largest economy and, presumably, dedicated leader in the still elusive global energy transition. Faced with this internal division, the US’s vast potential as a dominant producer for both conventional and emerging fuels brings as many challenges (and contradictions) as it does opportunities. The Biden administration has walked a delicate tightrope with respect to the US’s energy superpower status. Certainly, the administration has reinvigorated US climate leadership in the form of execut
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