Until now, the United States has been trailing other countries when it comes to plans for a post-COVID clean energy push. As countries around the world have rushed to put together green stimulus packages for a post-pandemic economic recovery, the U.S. has been slow to adopt a similar policy. The private sector, too, has taken a drastically different approach in the U.S. when compared to energy companies in Europe. In a New York Times report last month headlined “ U.S. and European Oil Giants Go Different Ways on Climate Change ,” reporter Clifford Krauss wrote that “while BP and other European companies invest billions in renewable energy, Exxon and Chevron are committed to fossil fuels and betting on moonshots.” In fact, the United States has been so comparatively slow to work clean energy into their stimulus packages that even a surprising number of blue-chip companies including the likes of […]