Biden open to gas tax increase, electric vehicle user fee – media report
President Joe Biden told lawmakers at a White House meeting on Monday he was open to raising the gas tax by 5 cents to pay for his infrastructure bill, an Continue Reading
Joe Biden’s oil clean-up plan slammed as bailout for fossil fuels
Joe Biden’s plan to plug tens of thousands of abandoned oil wells across the US risks rewarding fossil fuel operators who shirk their clean-up responsibilities and hooking the industry on Continue Reading
US chaos has also led to vaccination success
From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, US cities, states, and even villages made up their own rules and called it freedom. That approach to combating coronavirus arguably led to Continue Reading
Leaked calls show ALEC’s secret plan to fight Biden on climate
Republican efforts to stall President Joe Biden’s climate agenda are slowly beginning to take shape. In March, a coalition of 12 Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging Biden’s Continue Reading
7 million Californians live near oil and gas wells. This bill could change that.
Despite its green reputation, California has a big fossil fuel problem on its hands: neighborhood oil and gas drilling. In California, there’s nothing preventing frackers or drillers from setting up Continue Reading
Justin Trudeau’s Climate Chief Sees North American Alignment Under Joe Biden
Just a few months ago, the U.S. government wasn’t participating in a global treaty to reduce harmful gas emissions, and legal challenges were threatening to kill a carbon tax imposed Continue Reading
US, Iran to continue sanctions relief talks after ‘constructive’ week in Vienna
The US, Iran and remaining signatories of the nuclear deal will resume talks April 14 in Vienna, Iranian officials said, as the parties seek to negotiate a pathway for the Continue Reading
U.S. Growth Expectations Keep Mounting With Bigger Tailwind
Economists are once again ratcheting up their U.S. growth forecasts as a fresh injection of government aid, rising vaccination rates and looser business restrictions combine to provide a bigger tailwind Continue Reading
North Dakota Oil Pipeline Prevails Over Environmentalists
The Dakota Access Pipeline will not be ordered to shut down while pending review, government lawyers told U.S. District Judge Brian Boasberg on Friday, much to the ire of environmentalists Continue Reading
In the West, Signs in the Snow Warn That a 20-Year Drought Will Persist and Intensify
Researchers with the Long Term Ecological Research site at the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station on the Niwot Ridge of Colorado’s Indian Peaks work on the 2019 snow survey Continue Reading