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This article appeared in the December 17, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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Climate, fuels, and complexity

Stephanie Hanes
Staff writer

After years of bringing ambitious climate goals into their future planning, governments and companies are backtracking. This week, the European Union walked back its ban on combustion-engine cars. Ford Motors announced it would stop producing the Lightning 鈥 the electric version of its popular F-150 pickup truck. And this fall, the U.S. Federal Reserve scrapped guidelines that directed large banks to manage climate-related financial risks.

Simon Montlake recently wrote a piece for our magazine about how even deep-green California is looking to produce more oil. Today, he talks about this聽in our 鈥淲hy We Wrote This鈥 podcast. It鈥檚 a complicated story 鈥 one that goes beyond left and right, good and bad. In other words, it鈥檚 also a classic Monitor story.


This article appeared in the December 17, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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