Новости за 23.08.2022

While it’s been hailed as a historic piece of climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act is less a climate bill, per se, than a piece of industrial policy focused on building out domestic supply chains for clean energy that will benefit the climate. That’s a big deal. By international standards, though, the United States is still catching up and relying mainly on the kinds of demand-side incentives that have long speckled the U.S. tax code.

On 20 January, 1994, a group of 120 churchgoers at Toronto Airport Vineyard Church fell to the floor in hysterical laughter, some of them barking like dogs and roaring like lions.

When Jeff Leavy, a trucker from Clatskanie, Oregon, heard in mid-2019 that a timber mill in the neighboring county was shutting down its swing shift in part because of a proposed emissions bill, he considered it another blow to his industry. The legislation aimed to limit carbon dioxide emissions to the equivalent of 25,000 metric tons; companies emitting more would have to buy carbon credits at auction. The money made would then be invested back into communities, including rural ones, affected by climate change. Читать дальше...

Liz Cheney’s political career is over—and that’s why she’s almost certainly running for president. 

It was only by visiting a state that didn’t tax groceries that Presdelane Harris realized her home was an outlier. Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, Harris remembers visiting her aunt in Maryland as a child, decades ago now, and accompanying the adults to the grocery store. Asking her mom for a treat, she was surprised the price of her snack at the cash register was the same as on the label. She didn’t know why, but the reason was simple: Maryland doesn’t charge sales tax on food. There... Читать дальше...