Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Is a Boon for Well-Off Americans
The Phantom V, the world’s first electric Rolls-Royce car. August 21, 2020, Silverstone, United Kingdom. © Cover Images/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…
The Texas Fiasco Makes the Case for Creating a National Power Grid
Ralph Lauer/ Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.You could point fingers in several directions for the outages that stemmed from last week’s polar vortex obliteration of the Texas power grid. You can’t rightly blame Earth for…
Climate Crisis May Threaten All That Depends on the Colorado River
Roberto (Bear) Guerra/High Country News Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Southern California farmers spend their winters watching…
It’s Not Just Texas. The Energy Meltdown Can Happen To Your State, Too.
David J. Phillip/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Last week, during a historic and catastrophic winter storm that brought snow and ice to Texas, the state’s independent and unregulated power grid collapsed. At the height of the storm,…
4 States Propose Harsh New Penalties for Climate Protesters
Activist Tania Aubid, of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, speaks in St. Paul, MN, to protesters opposed to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.(Tim Evans/NurPhoto/AP) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by…
Nevada Lithium Mine Kicks Off a New Era of US Extraction
The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone reservation in Humboldt County, Nevada.Russel Albert Daniels / High Country News Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of…