Does the Climate Bill Throw Environmental Justice Under the Bus?
And three more questions about the biggest climate legislation in US history.
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What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Mean for Climate Tech?
Here are questions to ask about the bill’s impact on climate tech. In any case, it's a huge and welcome step forward.
Time for Solar Energy to Shine
President Biden made waves with recent actions to boost solar manufacturing, but states have been busy, too.
Congressional Committee Finds Trump Covid Efforts Guided by Politics, Not Health
It points to the influence of one man, Scott Atlas, who had no qualifications for overseeing pandemic response. He undermined testing and mask-wearing, among other errors, the report recounts. Former response coordinator Deborah Birx says...
Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to National Security
The youth movement urges President Biden to act—with or without Congress.
Climate action has been ‘a calamity’, says Senate Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse
Rhode Island Democrat spoke to the Guardian about the president’s climate record and targeting oil industry’s ‘achilles heel’
The Bitcoin Recession
A financial microclimate that did not exist even two years ago and is strongly dependent on the trading price of Bitcoin has lost tens, probably hundreds, of billions of dollars in value in a matter...
The US Senate’s Sneaky Crypto Move
If you find it strange that the infrastructure bill snaking its way through Capitol Hill might fundamentally change how cryptocurrency transactions take place in the United States, you’re not alone.
How to Keep Fintech From Being Predatory
The federal government and Congress *could* do so much more, but it's unlikely to do so, because too many of its members have been captured by the financial industry.