The businesses competing with the big oil drillers are also the dirtiest operators around.
Jake Bittle
Jake Bittle is a reporter who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration (Simon & Schuster, 2023). You can follow him on Twitter @jake_bittle.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
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Posted inBuilding Back America
The Incoherence of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
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Posted inEconomic Policy
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Posted inHousing
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