Climate and Environment

As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

Who is behind the fast-growing abundance movement? Who are the billionaires and media figures helping it gain popularity?

This report summarizes how the Trump administration’s attacks on NOAA and FEMA are putting millions of Americans in mortal danger this hurricane season and beyond.

Republicans will continue to put Americans in harm’s way unless Democrats make them pay a political price for unleashing needless suffering.

Methane makes up a small portion of greenhouse gas emissions in terms of quantity, but it is one of the most important drivers of climate change, as it’s over 80 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide in its first 20 years in the atmosphere. A significant amount of the extreme warming that we will experience in our lifetimes, and the planetary tipping points that we breach, will be propelled by methane—and emissions are rising faster than ever.

This report sets out to excavate the proposed policy prescriptions of the broader abundance movement, and thoroughly address their flaws.

The choice now is whether the United States continues to aid and abet Silicon Valley’s environmental rampage or to fight it.

We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.

Trump’s most brazen act of climate sabotage yet: a proposed repeal of the 2009 “endangerment finding.”

The book is fascinating and surprisingly fun—with Wang’s piercing dry wit interspersed at a near perfect frequency. It’s also frustrating. While the character of the engineering state is superbly developed, the points where its American “lawyerly” counterpart is brought into the mix are more tenuous.

The National Environmental Policy Act is under attack by the Trump administration, the Supreme Court, and the Republican-majority Congress. Within the Democratic party as well, there is a faction that seeks to limit the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to usher in a so-called “abundance agenda” of more expedient building.

Report finds massive pay hike for executives as homeowners see costs surge.

Performance-based pay packages incentivize claim denials and other harmful practices.