Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:15:55 +0000
The EPA has issued a new rule governing the exhaust emissions of passenger cars and light duty trucks but red states have sued to block it.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:21:19 +0000
Jennifer Sensiba wrote this week about a proposal from U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to put big tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports (which are non-existent at the moment, but expected). He’s not shy about it — he’s concerned that cheap electric cars from China will come into the US and … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:27:46 +0000
The insurance industry survives and thrives on two things: its ability to quantify risk and then its ability to profit on it. Whether talking about home insurance, car insurance, life insurance, or some other kind of insurance, the first step is to do the math of how likely it is that certain destruction will occur […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:58:34 +0000
According to Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, President of NextGen America, “young voters” are now breaking 3-1 for Democrats. “No generation has been this progressive or politically engaged in American history,” she adds. Unfortunately, I do not see the source of this data or any more specific language on it. Though, it is midterm election night and […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:50:59 +0000
I confess — I’m not a fan of incorrect claims about important matters of policy and politics, and even more so when those claims go viral and take on a meme-like quality. It seems like everywhere you go, people chat about “Bidenflation” and “Joe Biden’s inflation.” I find it quite annoying, especially since it’s extremely […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:40:43 +0000
Background: The US has essentially a two-party system. 20 years ago, both parties were respectable and believed that the democratic system was a wonderful thing that had been handed down to us by the founding fathers and those that have governed since. Both parties also believed in protecting the environment and that anthropogenic global warming […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:30:31 +0000
Tigercomm has produced a brilliant report on “the physics of U.S. politics” and the clean energy industry. I was going to write about the report, but Tigercomm President Mike Casey’s own writing is so good that hacking it up and summarizing it didn’t seem sensible. (I guess Mike has had a lot of practice storytelling […]
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:28:12 +0000
The U.S. House on Aug. 12 passed a bill with major implications for the power generation industry, joining the U.S. Senate in supporting the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The bill, which now heads to President Joe Biden for his signature, includes major provisions to combat climate change, including support for a variety of clean energy […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 17:15:46 +0000
According to a CNN article published a few months ago, Tesla owners are nearly evenly split among Democrats and Republicans, with a slight weight on the Democratic side. The author opened his article by saying Elon Musk had recently trained his Twitter guns on Democrats and was also going after President Biden. It mentioned Musk going […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:22:28 +0000
Georgia Republicans think that the new Rivian electric truck factory will destroy local ecosystems and harm the community. It may seem strange that Republicans would suddenly care about the environment, a topic that they’ve dismissed before, but in actuality, they don’t. They are just pretending to for the sake of politics. The New York Times […]