From this piece on the coal industry: Coal country is in free fall and is pleading for help from Washington. That’s why the largest union in one of the dirtiest industries is broadly backing President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion green infrastructure package — …
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This opinion piece in the New York Times suggests that the U.S. defense budget can be cut aggressively without endangering the nation. As if this is something we didn’t already know? The Department of Defense employs more than 200,000–in property …
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At left is an excellent example of “lying with statistics.” Comparing numbers from Obama when he came into office right after the 2008 crash that occurred under Bush 43, with numbers from Trump, before the market crash due to COVID-19. …
The content of this few-second-long video says it all: persevere. How much of the new U.S. infrastructure program will be aimed at green projects? Will all this come along quickly enough to avoid the brunt of climate-related damage? No one …
Honeybee Burger has an interesting business model: open a national chain of restaurants that offer only their proprietary plant-based burgers (along with fries, drinks, and desserts), i.e., no products containing beef, chicken or fish. Their pitch to investors is linked …
Sometimes we progressives wonder if we have the wrong message to persuade others to come on board. Are we coming on too strong with ideas like Black Lives Matter? Should we back off a bit with some of our demands …
Robert Rapier, who works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about issues involving energy and the environment, was one of my first contacts in the renewable energy field. He writes about the graph below: I often talk about …
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From The Hill: Nuclear-powered electricity generation surpassed coal-fired generation for the first time on record last year, according to a new analysis. Warmer-than-average temperatures and a reduction in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic combined to reduce natural gas prices …
A great deal of environmental healing will come from the Biden administration, at least if we can predict the future based on the first two months. In particular, there has been robust discussion concerning putting an end to subsidies that …
As Connecticut senator Chris Murphy points out here, there is a moral issue at stake here. But, if nothing else, this will be a very interesting experiment in macroeconomics. The neoliberalism that has defined the United States for the last …
