In the low-profile race for California insurance commissioner, Jane Kim wants to borrow from other countries to solve a crisis in the homeowner’s insurance market.
Climate Crisis
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump Has Created a Climate Opportunity
The American people have been led astray about what climate change means for their pocketbooks.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Aftermath: China Is Electrifying Freight Trucking
Trump’s Iran war will only accelerate the process.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Aftermath: California Gas Prices Are Up, and It’s Not Just the War
A refinery oligopoly and exclusive contracts allow the oil industry to price-gouge California drivers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Wild Wild Western Water Wars
As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
NEPA and Its Discontents
What’s missing from the political conversation around America’s embattled environmental law?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Opening of Trump’s Box
Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘Project Hail Mary’ Shows What Real Heroism Looks Like
It isn’t shooting the bad guy. It’s sacrificing to save your alien rock pal.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump’s Billion-Dollar French Boondoggle Gets Even Dumber
He is paying TotalEnergies a billion dollars to do natural gas investments it is already doing.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump Pays a French Company a Billion Dollars to Increase Your Electric Bill
TotalEnergies was going to build wind farms. Now it’s being paid to not build them.
