Scott Lemieux

3 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

Sprawling wind farms in Wyoming. A huge solar factory expansion in Georgia. Lithium mines in Nevada. Vacuums that suck carbon from the air in Louisiana. Over the past three years, companies have made plans to invest more than $843 billion across the United States in projects aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions, driven by lucrative tax credits for clean energy provided by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

3 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

It’s pretty well known that Trump has little to no idea what’s in the executive orders being put on his desk, but forgetting what his ceremonies are even about is another brick in the wall:The moment Biden dropped out of the race the questions of mental acuity and cognitive ability, which were the foundations upon which the election was to be decided, vanished and instead we talked about egg prices and Imane Khelif.

4 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

Congratulations again to every reporter who took Trump’s denials of Project 2025 at face value:Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday. Blanche replaces longtime librarian Carla Hayden, whom the White House fired last week amid criticism from conservatives that she was advancing a “woke” agenda.

4 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

I personally like the construction of the current NBA draft lottery and like it when a long-odds team wins it — I don’t get why so many fans get so upset when some combination of total ineptitude and deliberate non-competitiveness don’t get rewarded. Alas, in Adam Silver’s revenge on me we have a long-odds winner that rewards total ineptitude:The Dallas Mavericks have won the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes.

4 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

This shouldn’t be surprising — it’s a model that has also worked well elsewhere — but congestion pricing in New York City has been a huge success:And what about the concerns about pollution of people in the South Bronx, which some anti-tax anti-transit suburbanites cynically grasped as a pretext? Community groups were especially concerned that drivers avoiding the tolls might be diverted and drive more pollution to the South Bronx, which has some of the highest rates of asthma in the nation.