Enlarge (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images ) President Joe Biden’s climate ambitions will face a critical test on Monday as a major portion of the $3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill comes up for a vote. If it passes, the sprawling legislation will push the American economic climate to rein in its carbon emissions by spurring advancements […]
Enlarge / Opponents of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines hold a rally as they protest US President Donald Trump’s executive orders advancing their construction, at Columbus Circle in New York on January 24, 2017. (credit: AFP | Getty) Construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline was officially terminated on Wednesday, handing a big […]
Enlarge (credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images) What if the British crown had offered the Luddites a retraining program and the promise of good-paying factory jobs? Perhaps they would have accepted the textile transition? That’s essentially what the nation’s largest coal miner union is suggesting. In exchange for job retraining, wage replacement, and […]
(credit: MIT News) Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law late last week one of the nation’s most sweeping climate bills, putting the state on a path to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The law sets emissions limits of 50% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 75% cuts by 2040 with interim limits every […]
Enlarge (credit: Picture Alliance / Getty Images) On Friday, the Biden administration announced it had fulfilled the requirements of one of the executive orders issued on the very first day of his presidency: determining what’s called the “social cost of carbon.” This figure tries to capture the cumulative economic value achieved by investing in limiting […]
Expand The laws passed by the US Senate Monday was utterly frankensteinian: a heap of unrelated statements stitched together. Aside from the pandemic aid steps, it included tens of thousands of pages of federal financing and tax credits, such as, for instance, a session’s worth of prep stapled into the last examination. However, in the […]