The University of Southern California and Columbia are the latest schools to shed fossil fuel investments. But these commitments merit a closer look.
Energy & the Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Quiet Winner of the Texas Energy Crisis
Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, is poised to profit heavily off Texas’s briefly surging energy prices during the snowstorm. The Biden infrastructure program could be its next conquest.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Freezing Texans: The Larger Lessons
The culprit is deregulation—not just in Texas and not just in electricity.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Treasury Wants to Save the Financial System From Climate Collapse
But banks are already pushing back against a new initiative to foreground climate risk.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The National-Security Case for Decarbonization
Getting off fossil fuels will save a fortune in averted military misadventures.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Long and Winding Road to Replacing the Gas Tax
Can Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg convince Congress that road user fees are the next big revenue thing?
Posted inPolitics
Even After the Cabinet Selections, Personnel Is Policy
Look to the sub-cabinet level for obscure but important jobs that will determine the direction of the Biden presidency.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Introducing the Executive Action Tracker
The Prospect is monitoring 77 significant executive actions that Biden can implement without further legislation from Congress.
