Energy & Environment
Trump is propping up the coal industry, despite what markets say
President Donald Trump's preferential treatment toward fossil fuels has backfired and left many American energy producers anxious about the future of the industry. The president doesn't seem to care. On Tuesday,…
Trump is sabotaging his ‘drill, baby, drill’ energy agenda
Since being sworn in, President Donald Trump has made fossil fuels a central component of his energy agenda. The administration has taken steps to expedite oil production on federal lands, reverse regulations imposed by the…
Will lawmakers cut over $4 trillion in federal energy tax credits?
With a continuing resolution passed and the federal government funded through September, Republican members of Congress are aiming to finalize a budget resolution, which needs to be agreed to by both chambers, by the week of…
We’re not short on power. We’re just too sanctimonious to generate it.
The headlines framed it as another Trump tariff story: Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatening a 25 percent retaliation on American energy exports. But the real story of the Northeastern energy crisis is more than cross-border…
Will Trump’s tariffs on Venezuelan oil matter?
After setting April 2 as the day that tariffs on most global goods will go into effect, the White House appears to be walking back its plans. Levies on products like lumber, automobiles, and semiconductors may not be enacted…
Trump thinks the feds can fix America’s critical mineral supply chain
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to unleash American energy by reducing regulations and shrinking the size of government. "Burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations…
Dumping environmental justice from the EPA is a good step. Now dump the EPA.
If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor and minority communities…
Will California stop Trump’s environmental deregulation plans?
California was one of President Donald Trump's largest foes during his first term; the state sued his administration over 120 times. Lawsuits from the Golden State impeded several of Trump's deregulatory moves,…
Ending Daylight Savings Time is long overdue
On Sunday, Arizonans, Hawaiians, and residents of several U.S. territories happily went about their days with no need to worry about a task that annoys most Americans; we didn't have to change our clocks to accommodate…
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