The bipartisan infrastructure bill grinds to a halt, and with it, nearly $50 billion in resilience funding.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A New Deal Jobs Program Returns in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
One provision of the American Jobs Plan would devote $10 billion to creating a Civilian Climate Corps.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Four More Years of Trump Would Be an Environmental ‘Fiasco’
The administration has established a record of protecting polluters and undermining regulation.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: COVID Disaster Hurting Response to Other Disasters
Plus, will there be a relief bill? This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for August 24, 2020.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Warren Buffett Is Not the Answer to California’s Energy Grid Problems
Governor Gavin Newsom has floated that America’s billionaire should buy PG&E. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Utility Companies Keep Merging and Merging
A reported deal between PPL and Avangrid would create an East Coast energy giant with over 13 million customers. That could be bad for ratepayers, and the climate.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
San Francisco Makes a Charge Toward Public Power
The city’s bid to take over PG&E could mark a turning point in restoring a more environmentally and economically just power grid.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
California Wildfires Stoke Need to Concentrate on Climate Change, Public Health
Northern California has been battling wildfires since early October, which have burned almost 250,000 acres, killed 42 people, displaced 100,000 residents, and destroyed thousands of homes. The hardest-hit areas have been Napa and Sonoma counties, the epicenter of the U.S. wine industry, and Santa Rosa, a town of 175,000 50 miles north of San Francisco. […]
Posted inWorking in America
Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Labor
As a Louisiana sheriff’s off-the-cuff remarks and the California wildfires remind us, all states depend on and profit from putting prisoners to work—and that’s a problem.
