The department has yet to implement a rule requiring its contractors to obey labor laws.
EPA
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 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 inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 1: Billionaire Press Domination
Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and don’t see — in the world around us every day.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Time for the EPA to Use Its Most Powerful Weapon
National Ambient Air Quality Standards under the Clean Air Act could be employed to reach President Biden’s climate goals.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
To Regain the Public’s Trust, the Executive Branch Needs an Ethics Enforcement Overhaul
Too many federal officials are overseeing policies where they have a direct financial interest.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Reclaiming the Deep State
How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion.
Posted inLaw and Justice
More Rights in Danger as Supreme Court Term Begins
Threats to voting rights, affirmative action, the environment, and student debt relief take center stage.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Problem With Emission Reduction Models
They are partially based on what even some of the modelers acknowledge are faulty data, particularly on methane.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
To Save the Climate, Hire More Civil Servants
Either we pay for more people to fix the climate crisis, or we pay for more cleanup after routine natural disasters.
