Alexander C. Kaufman
Climate, environment and business reporter | New York
About Alexander C. Kaufman
Alexander Kaufman is a climate, environment and business reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. Email him at [email protected]. You can reach him by encrypted email at [email protected] or direct message him on Twitter @AlexCKaufman for his phone number on Signal.
As COP25 host, Spain offers a just green vision
The progressive bloc set to rule Europe’s fifth-largest economy has endorsed a Green New Deal but risks fueling a resurgent fascist movement.
Disappearing shrimp sign of climate crisis
As global temperatures rise, plans for dealing with the climate crisis are all but silent on the oceans and the plight of the coastal seafood industry.
In Brazil’s Amazon, fire hit ‘like an erupting volcano.’ Then came the smokescreen
In the forested state hardest hit by fires, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's Orwellian messaging is taking hold.
Brazil's Amazon fires highlight threat of deregulation amid climate change
The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.
Jay Inslee tops new ranking of 2020 candidates’ climate proposals
Eight candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, don't even have climate plans to rank on the list.
Exxon’s climate denial set to face first public scrutiny as legal woes mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation campaign to discredit climate science. Now the world’s largest publicly traded oil company will face public questions for the first time over its role in creating a climate crisis on Earth.
New US oil and gas drilling to unleash 1,000 coal plants’ worth of pollution by 2050
Amid mounting calls to phase out fossil fuels in the face of rapidly worsening climate change, the United States is ramping up oil and gas drilling faster than any other country, threatening to add 1,000 coal plants’ worth of planet-warming gases by the middle of the century, according to a report released Wednesday.
To California, the wildfires are tragic. To the Trump administration, they're convenient
The Commerce Department has ordered that water use be prioritized for firefighters –– who say water isn't the issue. The decision isn't really about fire.
Trump proposes gutting fuel economy rules in ‘giant giveaway’ to big oil, automakers
The White House proposed dramatically weakening fuel economy standards on Thursday, reversing the only major federal policy to reduce planet-warming emissions from the nation’s top source of greenhouse gas pollution.
America's new climate champion
The progressive newcomer and avowed Democratic Socialist is likely to win in November on the most ambitious climate platform of anyone in her party.