As the climate crisis intensifies and COVID-19 persists, the two countries still confront problems that privatization efforts never solved.
Climate Crisis
Posted inLaw and Justice
Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice Is Perpetuating Climate Destruction
When the government’s lawyers defend fossil fuel interests, people and the planet pay the price.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Shadow Courts for Fossil Fuels Want a Green Makeover
Under the Energy Charter Treaty, investors can sue governments for loss of future profits. Champions say this will be an ‘indispensable tool’ for the green transition.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Incoherence of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
It reserves money for climate adaptation measures, but lets states use a much larger pot of money to build whatever they want.
Posted inPolitics
The Center-Right and Our Future
Should liberals and progressives take the hand that some anti-Trump conservatives are extending? Let’s talk.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What the New Sheriffs of Wall Street Can Do
Biden has empowered a crop of aggressive financial regulators. They’ll need to look beyond the banking industry and into finance’s darker corners.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Utilities Polarize Over Push to Ban Natural Gas
A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against Big Oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 2: The New Normal Is More Normalized Censorship
Canary Mission’s blacklists, union busting at Google, Pfizer’s vaccine negotiation tactics, police dogs, and forced sterilization round out the list of censored stories.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 1: The New Normal Is More Normalized Censorship
High drug costs, threats to journalists, wildcat strikes, climate debtors, and ‘forever chemicals’ in the oceans: a sobering start to this year’s list of stories you might have missed
Posted inTAP
Electric Cars AND Union Workers
Today on TAP: The Build Back Better bill’s support for both exemplifies the just transition we need to save the planet. And—surprise—Joe Manchin doesn’t like it.
