Today on TAP: Despite his historic achievements, the public doesn’t think he’s done much at all.
Infrastructure, Housing & Transportation
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Slow Extraction of Lead Water Pipes
President Biden has promised to replace all of the lead service lines in the country, but there’s not enough money and not enough time.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Firefighter Hell: When an Electric Car Bursts Into Flames
With the clean-energy transition accelerating, firefighters want better information about EV safety risks and hazards.
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 inTransportation
Anti-Monopoly Reformer Joins Department of Transportation
Jen Howard, former chief of staff to Lina Khan at the FTC, is the new chief competition officer at DOT.
Posted inTransportation
What Was Behind Last Week’s FAA Breakdown?
Pete Buttigieg’s personnel choices were certainly a factor.
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 inTransportation
The FTC Banned an Unfair Practice. The Department of Transportation Can, Too.
DOT has the same statutory language to effectively ban deceptive flight cancellations, the way the FTC has banned noncompete agreements.
