JACKSON — Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fischer said the lights in the high school in her district were so old, they could not even find bulbs for them when they went out. Electric equipment, decades old, fell repeatedly, meaning constant maintenance and repair for the district’s schools in a county where 36.2 percent […]
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Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Fracking or No Fracking, Who Gets to Decide?
Fracking is a difficult issue, as it allows for a lot of domestic energy production which brings down consumer costs and gives our foreign policy establishment more flexibility, but also introduces new environmental concerns that range from the traditional degradation associated with fossil fuel extraction to the urgent concerns we have with climate change to […]
Posted inEconomy
The Value of Solar
The pricing of distributed solar energy has become the object of fierce struggles: not only in Arizona and Nevada, but in previously generous Germany and Britain. Utilities in US states claim that solar households enjoying net metering are getting a free ride from their unpaneled neighbours – they will still rely on the grid in […]
Posted inEconomy, Government, Republic 3.0
To Cut Carbon Emissions, Take the Nuclear Option
Nuclear energy is vital to helping America meet its commitments to combat climate change.
Posted inEconomy
Garbage to Gas
Landfills and sewage treatment plants are an overlooked source of clean energy – but a boom in bio-methane might be coming.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
A Practical Path Toward a Carbon Tax
Rep. John Delaney’s carbon tax plan would fund rebates for low-income families, help displaced coal workers and lower corporate tax rates. But its best virtue might be bipartisan appeal.
