If Trump needed one more calamity less than three weeks before the election, the financial house of cards is tottering.
Energy & the Environment
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Downvoting Data Centers in Maine
During the final debate between Troy Jackson and Susan Collins, a contrite protester puts the issue back on the table.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump’s Great Gift to Chinese Automakers
First, he took away GM and Ford’s EV subsidies. Then he drastically jacked up the price of gas and diesel.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Commodity Traders Rake In Cash During Trump Administration
A new report reveals that the industry’s significant increases in lobbying expenses are paying off.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Crude Awakening
A reviled ‘boligarch’ and his right-wing adversaries are engaged in a low-level war, but the only people who will feel the impact are the Venezuelan people.
Posted inTAP
The Political Economy of Diesel
Trump is trying every possible short-term trick to cut diesel prices. None of it will work; he might as well command the tide to recede.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
In Alaska, Senate Candidates Claim the Oil Industry Creates Local Jobs. It Doesn’t.
The state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents.
Posted inTAP
Senate Democrats Block Husted’s ‘Toothless’ Data Center Energy Costs Bill
A Republican senator seeking re-election in Ohio once touted data centers. He tried to pass a bill that fell short of requiring them to pay their fair share. No wonder it failed.
Posted inTechnology
‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump
They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.