Introduction
The postwar, U.S.-dominated geopolitical order shaped by oil is yielding to a new system built on carbon-free renewable energy and electric vehicles. In the emerging international scramble for so-called green energy, China is leading, with its control over many supplies of minerals essential for batteries, wind turbines and other technologies. China is also key to addressing climate change because its coal-powered economy creates more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions than any other country. To counter China, the United States is rallying allies and friendly mineral-rich countries to forge alternative supply chains that can enable green energy industries to scale up. And, faced with Russian aggression in Ukraine, Europe is shedding energy ties to Moscow and expanding its domestic wind and solar power sources. Clean hydrogen may also create new energy powers — from Australia to Chile and Africa — as industrial demand for fossil-free energy surges. Competition extends into the Arctic, where retreating ice is spurring the hunt for green energy minerals. While the transition will take decades, the rules of the game are being set now — in Beijing and Washington.
The oil-dominated geopolitical order is changing as countries embrace carbon-free energy sources to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. That transition has produced tensions, in part due to the need for rare earth minerals used in clean energy technologies, such as these wind turbines and solar panels near Klettwitz, Germany. (Getty Images/Sean Gallup)
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Nov. 18, 2022 |
Geopolitics of Green Energy |
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Sep. 02, 2022 |
Preserving the Seas |
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Jun. 17, 2022 |
Plastic Pollution |
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Dec. 17, 2021 |
Endangered Species |
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Nov. 06, 2020 |
Preventing Wildfires |
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Jul. 10, 2020 |
Circular Economy |
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Nov. 29, 2019 |
Climate Change and Health |
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Sep. 20, 2019 |
Extreme Weather |
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Dec. 07, 2018 |
Plastic Pollution |
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Dec. 02, 2016 |
Arctic Development |
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Apr. 22, 2016 |
Managing Western Lands |
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Jul. 18, 2014 |
Regulating Toxic Chemicals |
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Sep. 20, 2013 |
Future of the Arctic |
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Jun. 14, 2013 |
Climate Change |
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Nov. 06, 2012 |
Vanishing Biodiversity |
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Nov. 02, 2012 |
Managing Wildfires |
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Nov. 04, 2011 |
Managing Public Lands |
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Aug. 26, 2011 |
Gulf Coast Restoration |
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Jul. 2010 |
Plastic Pollution |
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Feb. 2010 |
Climate Change |
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Jan. 09, 2009 |
Confronting Warming |
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Dec. 05, 2008 |
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint |
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Nov. 2008 |
Carbon Trading |
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Oct. 03, 2008 |
Protecting Wetlands |
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Feb. 29, 2008 |
Buying Green |
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Dec. 14, 2007 |
Future of Recycling |
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Nov. 30, 2007 |
Disappearing Species |
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Feb. 2007 |
Curbing Climate Change |
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Dec. 01, 2006 |
The New Environmentalism |
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Jan. 27, 2006 |
Climate Change |
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Oct. 25, 2002 |
Bush and the Environment |
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Oct. 05, 2001 |
Invasive Species |
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Nov. 05, 1999 |
Saving Open Spaces |
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Jun. 11, 1999 |
Saving the Rain Forests |
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May 21, 1999 |
Setting Environmental Priorities |
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Mar. 19, 1999 |
Partisan Politics |
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Oct. 16, 1998 |
National Forests |
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Jun. 19, 1998 |
Environmental Justice |
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Aug. 23, 1996 |
Cleaning Up Hazardous Wastes |
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Mar. 31, 1995 |
Environmental Movement at 25 |
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Jun. 19, 1992 |
Lead Poisoning |
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May 15, 1992 |
Jobs Vs. Environment |
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Jan. 17, 1992 |
Oil Spills |
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Sep. 20, 1991 |
Saving the Forests |
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Apr. 26, 1991 |
Electromagnetic Fields: Are They Dangerous? |
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Sep. 08, 1989 |
Free Market Environmental Protection |
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Dec. 09, 1988 |
Setting Environmental Priorities |
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Jul. 29, 1988 |
Living with Hazardous Wastes |
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Dec. 20, 1985 |
Requiem for Rain Forests? |
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Aug. 17, 1984 |
Protecting the Wilderness |
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Jun. 15, 1984 |
Troubled Ocean Fisheries |
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Aug. 19, 1983 |
America's Disappearing Wetlands |
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Feb. 22, 1980 |
Noise Control |
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Nov. 16, 1979 |
Closing the Environmental Decade |
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Oct. 13, 1978 |
Toxic Substance Control |
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Feb. 27, 1976 |
Pollution Control: Costs and Benefits |
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Nov. 28, 1975 |
Forest Policy |
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May 30, 1975 |
Wilderness Preservation |
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Dec. 20, 1974 |
Environmental Policy |
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Nov. 14, 1973 |
Strip Mining |
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Dec. 01, 1971 |
Global Pollution |
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Jul. 21, 1971 |
Protection of the Countryside |
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Jan. 06, 1971 |
Pollution Technology |
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Jun. 19, 1968 |
Protection of the Environment |
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Oct. 30, 1963 |
Noise Suppression |
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