The president’s signature climate bill is a huge deal for publicly owned electricity. But it will take work to unlock its potential.
Inflation Reduction Act
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What Could Chill Heat Pumps
The obstacles to installing a transformative technology
Posted inTAP
The Democrats’ Green Investments Are Going to Republican States
Today on TAP: The wind, solar, and battery facilities spurred by last year’s Democratic legislation are already springing up—in red America.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Reclaiming U.S. Industry
Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Wall Street’s Big Bet on Rewiring America
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.
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
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.
Posted inWorking in America
Union Leader: Stellantis Will Send Electric-Vehicle Jobs to Mexico
1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Manchin Decides to Torpedo Permitting Reform
By refusing to hold a hearing for the chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Joe Manchin is damaging an existing effort to improve permitting for electric transmission lines.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Will the Green Transition Build Worker Power? The IRS Will Help Decide.
The IRS and Treasury should ensure that companies receiving tax credits stick to the labor standards in the Inflation Reduction Act.