Dashing the hopes of establishment Democrats, Trump’s interior secretary and ‘energy czar’ has adopted his boss’s excesses as his own.
Climate Crisis
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Trump Regime Is Making Disasters Worse
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Cost of Climate
Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Big Tech’s Big New York Gas Pipeline
Gov. Kathy Hochul justified a $1 billion natural gas project by appealing to affordability. But the main reason the state needs the energy is because data centers are hogging it.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Josh Shapiro Ditched the Same Climate Pact That Abigail Spanberger Is Joining
To seal a state budget deal, Pennsylvania is departing the RGGI emissions control program, but Virginia is jumping back in.
Posted inEconomic Policy
New Reforms, Same Old Florida Home Insurance Market
Inflated ratings, weak oversight, and bare-bones consumer protections continue to leave homeowners exposed to the worst of Florida’s fragile, undercapitalized insurance market.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary
Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do the same for Trump’s oil industry backers?
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Do We Rebuild After Trump?
Many Trump critics are focused on what he is doing to our basic democratic compact. But there’s a reason that all the presidents who led us through our worst previous crises also had an aggressive program of reform—including public provision and ownership.