Congressional Sausagemaking, or How Inflation Reduction Became Fossil Fuel Export Promotion
How Manchin and Sinema got dirty energy goodies and financier breaks into the Inflation Reduction Act.
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New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages
A new Nature study lends weight to the idea that federal agencies could be much more aggressive in regulating climate pollutants.
Read more...Chokepoint Capitalism Strangles Us All
Capitalism works in insidiuous ways.
Read more...Europe’s Economic Controlled Flight Into Terrain
More on Europe’s economic suicide.
Read more...The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges
Will a smart grid alleviate US power woes?
Read more...The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.
DeSmog has mapped the fossil fuel interests lobbying for gas-derived hydrogen and threatening to derail the momentum of green hydrogen.
Read more...‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response
Yves here. This is the first time I’ve come across the People’s CDC, and I like the cut of their jib. They have a series of demands for Covid action. And while continued “access” to vaccines is on the list, it’s their dead last action item, with N95 masks and ventilation and testing and improved […]
Read more...We Could Massively Reduce the Price of Energy in the UK – By Changing the Way We Regulate Energy Prices
A remedy for the UK/EU energy price shock is changing price rules. But can those fixes be implemented soon enough?
Read more...Record Number of US Households Behind on Energy Bills; Brace for a Cold Winter
Americans haven’t suffered the same level of energy price increases as the UK and Europe, yet a record number of households are buckling.
Read more...Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”
More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.
Read more...A New US Data Privacy Bill Aims To Give You More Control Over Information Collected About You – and Make Businesses Change How They Handle Data
A new data privacy law is in the works, at least in part due to more stringent rules in Europe. But could it have unintended side effects?
Read more...Republicans Are Being Mean to the IRS, Not That the Democrats Are Helping
It may seem peculiar to offer a defense of sort to the IRS, since most people here regard doing their taxes with even less enthusiasm than a visit to the dentist (although attitudes depend very much on the state of one’s finances and teeth). However, the reporting on the Democratic Party plan to increase IRS […]
Read more...Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign
Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.
Read more...A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
Read more...Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows
How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
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