This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem
Sprawl is made possible by highways. This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs. Leaving aside the emissions from the 1.1 billion trips Americans take per day (87 percent of which are taken in…
Study: Emails Show How Coca-Cola Tried to Influence Global Health Policy
Alex Potemkin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new study, released this week in health policy journal The Millbank Quarterly, analyzed emails between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Coca-Cola sent between 2011 and 2015, revealing how the beverage company attempted to gain influence with public health officials. According…
Apple Is Doing More to Police Facebook Than the US Government
Giannis Alexopoulos/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Apple said on Wednesday that, in response to a revelation that Facebook was monitoring minors’ cellphone usage, it would curtail the platform’s ability to distribute apps, it overshadowed the US government as a regulator of the company’s privacy practices. Apple’s action comes after…
The Senator Who Wants to Keep Silicon Valley From Reading Your Messages
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/NC via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senator Brian Schatz wants to make powerful technology companies more like banks, law firms, and hospitals—at least in terms of how they handle data. In late December, the Hawaii Democrat, one of big tech’s most vocal critics on Capitol…
How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Renaud VigourtOne night last March, Sue Fredericks ran into trouble. She had been watching snow accumulate for hours from her post at a 24-hour gas station. Busy stretches on her overnight shift were rare, on account of the size of the town in which she…
One of Trump’s Top EPA Officials is Resigning Following His Indictment
Johannes Schmitt-Tegge/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator indicted last week on charges that he conspired to violate Alabama ethics rules has resigned. Trey Glenn, who had been appointed by President Donald Trump, resigned in a letter to EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler over the weekend. In the…