Some coal defenders amp up culture war as others welcome nuclear and batteries.
Lee Harris
Lee Harris is a staff writer at The American Prospect. In 2020, she co-founded New York Focus, an investigative news site on New York politics. Prior to that, she was editor of the independent newspaper at the University of Chicago.
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‘We Don’t Want a Subsidy Race’
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is set to unveil guidance on CHIPS Act funding for domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Hochul and Senate Clash on Public Power, With Utility Workers on the Sidelines
The New York Power Authority manages resources built half a century ago. But a plan to make it the vanguard of clean energy could be hamstrung by labor-environmentalist divisions.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Geothermal Drinks Gas’s Milkshake
A new study says geothermal could smash growth forecasts with the backing of a powerful ally: the oil and gas industry. Can they really make friends?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Wall Street’s Big Bet on Rewiring America
Ithaca has put its Green New Deal in the hands of a green private equity fund, a private foundation, and a Goldman Sachs–backed software company.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Green Capital Feuds With Local Lenders Over National Climate Bank
Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says $20 billion of IRA funds should capitalize his group’s proposed national bank. Local lenders are skeptical.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Risks of the Biden Escalation
A false choice has been set up between neoliberal globalization and economic rearmament.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bullish Investors and Green Crony Capitalists
Our staff writer reviews 2022 and her work.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Wall Street Wins Again on Retirement Savings
A perk for the asset management industry found its way into the omnibus spending bill. Meanwhile, the savings of disabled Americans living in extreme poverty will continue to be strictly means-tested.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Europe Tries to Stop Exporting Its Emissions
A new EU border tax on carbon could hurt low-income industrializing countries, but ‘green protectionism’ is here to stay.