Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer Have a Surprise for You
An 18-month odyssey culminates in a smaller-than-promised, bigger-than-expected agreement to lower health care costs, tax corporations, and protect the planet.
View ArticleIs the Tax Reform in the Schumer-Manchin Deal for Real?
Today on TAP: Amazingly, the package includes provisions that have long eluded progressives.
View ArticleInflation Reduction Bill Uses Public Finance to Stoke Energy Investment
Billions in public financing would keep investment flowing into energy sector despite interest rate hikes.
View ArticleRepublicans Just Exposed Their Greatest Weakness
Only a deranged political party votes against health care for wounded veterans out of pure spite.
View ArticleHow the Inflation Reduction Act Attacks Diesel Pollution
It’s a starting point to deal with an issue that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities.
View ArticleOn Health Care, the Filibuster Means We Get Medicare for All or Nothing
Time to ditch this nonsensical fake tradition.
View ArticleWinners and Losers on Tax Policy
The big winner in the eleventh-hour concessions to Kyrsten Sinema was the private equity industry.
View ArticleA Stock Buyback Tax Isn’t a Great Idea
It essentially cuts the government in on the buyback scam, making it harder to actually eliminate the practice.
View ArticleCorn Ethanol Investors Poised to Profit From Inflation Reduction Act
The ethanol industry will be first in line for carbon capture tax credits, even though that’s not really who the program was designed for.
View ArticleThe Collapsing Clean-Energy Transition
Mixing up renewable energy project siting with fossil fuels production on public lands is environmental backsliding of the finest kind.
View ArticleAnnouncing the McConnell-McCarthy League of Patriotic Seniors!
Today on TAP: You can *oppose the socialist IRA* by paying MORE than its Malicious Marxist cap on insulin and other co-pays!
View ArticleThe Long Road to Mass EV Adoption
A new tax credit of $4,000 for used electric vehicles could give people a boost toward buying a zero-emissions car. But there are still a lot of hurdles.
View ArticlePrescription Drug Price Reforms Won’t Happen for Years
Democrats continue to not learn the lesson that they shouldn’t pass a policy in 2022 that doesn’t kick in until 2026.
View ArticleA Methane Fee Won’t Work If It Doesn’t Count All the Methane
Unless it bulks up its rules, the EPA’s historic undercounting of methane emissions will allow the minority of companies that fall under the new regulation to avoid the charge without much hassle.
View ArticleManchin Permitting Deal Teeters Despite Gas Industry Support
‘We sure as hell don’t owe Joe Manchin anything now,’ says one Democrat.
View ArticleThe Inflation Reduction Act’s Quiet Revolution on Public Power
Here’s how utilities will be decarbonized over the next decade.
View ArticleWater Cutbacks on Tap for Bone-Dry West
Congress sends billions for drought mitigation to Colorado River Basin states—just before Arizona and Nevada experience new cuts.
View ArticleThe Real Inflation Reduction Acts
The Biden administration’s actions in a variety of markets are doing the heavy lifting on lowering costs.
View ArticleCan Ocean Shipping Go Green?
Everyone agrees that ocean shipping must decarbonize. The question is how, and how fast.
View ArticleClimate Law Could Clarify Uncertain Fossil Fuel Leasing Picture
The Inflation Reduction Act mandates that millions of acres of public lands be made available to oil and gas companies before the government can offer land for renewables.
View ArticleManufacturing in the Green Industrial Policy Era
How the Inflation Reduction Act’s $50 billion for clean-energy manufacturing could launch the green industrial revolution
View ArticleClimate Change and a Turnpike in New Jersey
The governor and construction unions want to expand the New Jersey Turnpike, likely increasing greenhouse gas emissions in a highway-dependent state.
View ArticleIRS Edges Closer to 21st-Century Computing
Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the agency now has funding for significant IT upgrades—but the devil is in the details.
View ArticleAn Eleventh-Hour, Hail-Mary Climate Remedy
The Inflation Reduction Act promises to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but enables more pollution in Gulf Coast communities.
View ArticleHow Policy Got Done in 2022
To understand the Democrats’ big climate and health care bill, you must go back decades.
View ArticleWhy Progressive Groups Struggled With the Biden Agenda
The way Build Back Better unfolded made it an insider’s game, wasting serious effort and hundreds of millions of dollars from outside organizations.
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View ArticleIntroducing X-Date: A Debt Ceiling Newsletter
Democrats could have tried to abolish this pointless and dangerous economic time bomb, but failed to do it.
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