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November 04, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Climate Crisis Is a Cost-of-Living Crisis
The right’s climate denial means higher prices.
October 29, 2024
Report: Gas Industry Ramps Up Deceptive Effort to Influence Democrats
A group funded by fracking firms and pipeline companies is ramping up its efforts to cozy up to key Democratic constituencies in service of a pro-polluter agenda, including a bipartisan bill packed with fossil-fuel giveaways that could be considered in Congress in the coming weeks, according to a new report released today by the Revolving Door Project and Public Citizen.
October 28, 2024
State Insurance Commissioners Are Far Too Important to Ignore
The deeply intertwined crises of climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice are escalating. State insurance regulators cannot tackle these problems on their own, but their role in aggravating or ameliorating them deserves greater scrutiny.
October 11, 2024 | The New Republic
What Harris Needs to Say About Hurricanes
Kamala Harris should speak plainly about climate change—and then talk about the many things she could do as president to fix the home insurance crisis.
October 02, 2024 | The American Prospect
Progressives Must Act Now to Shape Kamala Harris’s White House
Now is the time for progressives to weigh in on jobs that don’t require Senate confirmation.
September 18, 2024
Jay Powell's Delay Caused Unnecessary Damage
The Fed chair’s deferral of interest rate cuts has hurt the clean energy transition and inflicted other economic harms.
September 05, 2024
Heatmap’s Poll on Permitting “Reform” Is Worse Than Useless
It’s an effort to manufacture consent for a dirty deal whose elements are poorly understood by most U.S. voters—through little fault of their own.
August 21, 2024
RELEASE: Jay Powell Is Biden’s Worst Appointee
Before Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell talks monetary policy at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, RDP wants to remind people how awful Powell has been—on interest rates, climate risk, and financial regulation.
August 15, 2024 | The Sling
The Fed Chair Thinks Wall Street Should Have Veto Power over Financial Regulations. That’s a Mistake.
By instructing regulators to acquiesce to the big bank CEOs who have led a historically fierce campaign in opposition to the Basel framework, Powell is practically inviting financial industry executives to quash, through negative public feedback, any regulation they don’t like.
August 13, 2024
The Corporate Revolvers Who Hurt the Biden Admin: Alan Davidson
Joe Biden appointees with extensive ties to big business did real damage to his agenda; Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should not make the same mistake.
August 13, 2024
The Corporate Revolvers Who Hurt the Biden Admin: Lisa Monaco
Joe Biden appointees with extensive ties to big business did real damage to his agenda; Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should not make the same mistake.
August 13, 2024
The Corporate Revolvers Who Hurt the Biden Admin: Benjamin Mizer
Joe Biden appointees with extensive ties to big business did real damage to his agenda; Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should not make the same mistake.
August 13, 2024
The Corporate Revolvers Who Hurt the Biden Admin: Brian Boynton
Joe Biden appointees with extensive ties to big business did real damage to his agenda; Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should not make the same mistake.
August 13, 2024
The Corporate Revolvers Who Hurt the Biden Admin: Brian Netter
Joe Biden appointees with extensive ties to big business did real damage to his agenda; Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should not make the same mistake.
August 13, 2024
The Corporate Revolvers Who Hurt the Biden Admin: Gina Raimondo
Joe Biden appointees with extensive ties to big business did real damage to his agenda; Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should not make the same mistake.