Ithaca has put its Green New Deal in the hands of a green private equity fund, a private foundation, and a Goldman Sachs–backed software company.
Energy & the Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Green Capital Feuds With Local Lenders Over National Climate Bank
Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says $20 billion of IRA funds should capitalize his group’s proposed national bank. Local lenders are skeptical.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Supply Shocks, Inflation, and the Limits of Monetary Policy
The major source of inflation was supply bottlenecks that are already subsiding for reasons unrelated to Fed rate hikes.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Floods’ Worst Ravages Will Be Visited Upon California’s Poorest
This month’s torrent compounds the affordable-housing crisis.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Power to Green the Public Energy Portfolio
The Tennessee Valley Authority is replacing coal plants with more fossil fuels. The Biden administration has the authority it needs to stop this.
Posted inPolitics
2023: A Year for Executive Action
Legislative progress will take a back seat in the next couple of years. The executive branch will have to implement the Biden agenda on its own.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
From the North Atlantic to Rural Tennessee
Our managing editor handpicks his Best of 2022.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bullish Investors and Green Crony Capitalists
Our staff writer reviews 2022 and her work.
Posted inPolitics
Q&A: Ro Khanna on the New Economic Patriotism
The California representative has some ideas for how to broaden the appeal of progressive policy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Europe Tries to Stop Exporting Its Emissions
A new EU border tax on carbon could hurt low-income industrializing countries, but ‘green protectionism’ is here to stay.
