Some state and local leaders are trying to recruit suddenly jobless U.S. government employees.
Alaska
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Biden Admin Hypes Growing Asian Market for American Gas
Biden officials are hawking an Alaska pipeline and gas export complex long seen as uninvestable. They promise skeptical investors sustained market access to Asia.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Rahm Emanuel’s Gas Pipeline
The Biden administration is promoting a new liquefied natural gas complex on the Pacific Coast, with expanded subsidies from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Chickenshit Club, Climate Edition
Government lawyers would rather approve 30 years of Arctic drilling than lose in court.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Infrastructure Summer: Polluters Don’t Pay in New ‘Polluter Pay’ Tax
In the new bipartisan infrastructure bill, even Biden’s ‘climate wins,’ like the Superfund program, have been substantially watered down.
Posted inTAP
Election Reforms: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Today on TAP: The virtues of ranked-choice voting
Posted inCoronavirus
One System, Two States, Two Different Results
Hawaii’s aggressive quarantine enforcement and Alaska’s hands-off approach have led to different outcomes in the 49th and 50th states.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sharing the Wealth
Why can’t we broadly distribute the wealth produced from America’s common resource pool? Conservative Alaska manages to do it.