Alexander C. Kaufman

politics / 4 weeks ago
Harris Economic Adviser Calls For ‘Clean Energy Marshall Plan’
A top economic adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the White House has called for ...
politics / 1 month ago
Inside The Ambitious Plan To Compete With Russia On Nuclear Energy Again
Nuclear plants are cheap to operate, last decades longer than other power sources, and generate unri...
politics / 1 month ago
Project 2025's Climate Cuts Would Cost Americans Billions Of Dollars Per Year
Project 2025 ― the plan that Republican operatives have drafted as a policy blueprint for a second T...
politics / 1 month ago
Biden’s $1.5 Billion Deal To Resurrect A Nuclear Plant Is Facing Fresh Drama
The United States’ effort to reverse the permanent shutdown of a nuclear station for the first time ...
politics / 2 months ago
The Philippines Finds Itself Trapped Between Surging Trump And Rising China Tensions
MANILA, Philippines — Last month, China’s coast guard attacked Filipino troops with axes and knives,...
politics / 2 months ago
GOP Ramps Up Effort To Block Biden Rule That Saves Americans $2 Billion On Energy
The “real people” facing the “real consequences” of a Biden administration policy designed to reduce...
politics / 3 months ago
Congress Just Passed The Biggest Clean-Energy Bill Since Biden's Climate Law
The Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday evening to pass major legislation designed to reverse th...
politics / 3 months ago
The New York Governor’s ‘Galactically Stupid’ Flip-Flop Is Just Her Latest Climate ‘Betrayal’
Almost exactly one year ago, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul cast her state’s first-in-the-nation plan to...
politics / 3 months ago
New Ads Pitch Biden’s Biggest Accomplishment To Voters In 2 Key Swing States
President Joe Biden speaks at the North American International Auto Show on Sept. 14, 2022, in Detro...
politics / 4 months ago
A Century-Old Company The Government Owns Wants To Solve A Big Energy Problem
The Biden administration wants the United States to triple the global supply of nuclear power, with ...
politics / 4 months ago
U.S. Solar Factories Say Biden Isn't Doing Enough To Protect Them From China
President Joe Biden netted billions in his landmark climate-spending law to revive solar manufacturi...
politics / 5 months ago
Owner Of New York City’s Defunct Nuclear Plant Sues The State
The company that owns the shuttered nuclear plant that once provided the bulk of New York City’s zer...
politics / 5 months ago
Biden Changes Course On A Major Power Grid Rule After Backlash
In the years before the United States’ aging network of electrical grids began heaving under the pre...
politics / 5 months ago
The Gas Industry Gutted Green Building Codes. Now, Republicans Want To Go Further.
A week ago, fossil fuel companies pulled off an 11th-hour win in their fight to keep climate-friendl...
politics / 6 months ago
Gas Industry Blocks Building Codes Meant To Make Going Electric Cheaper
The natural gas industry pulled off an 11th-hour victory in its campaign to strip climate-friendly r...
politics / 6 months ago
Al Gore’s Climate Chief On Biden’s Record, Nuclear, And What Happens If Trump Wins
In 2006, shortly after the release of his groundbreaking documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” former...