New Orleans The first thing we need to get clear is that the so-called “green bank” being touted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not a bank. It’s a big pot of money, about $27 billion, that is part of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In reality, it’s an investment …
Category: Environment
The Heat May Force Political Climate Change in Red States
Marble Falls Everyone everywhere talks about the weather, but in the current global heatwave it’s topic number one in many places. The number of reports about heat are rising faster than the numbers on most thermometers. The eight highest annual temperatures since records have been kept are in the last eight years, for …
The Just Transition: Clean Air and Good Jobs
Marble Falls The conundrum over the last several decades, as the reality of the impact of climate change has become impossible to ignore, is how do we create a just transition from the current economy to a cleaner, greener future? Talking to Rutgers Professor Todd Vachon on Wade’s World, he reminded me that …