Photo: In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska In an aggressive move that angered Republicans, the Biden administration canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic
Europe reeled this summer from heat, wildfires, migrants and worries about Russia’s war in Ukraine, and too much tourism. I know; I was part of the problem. Tourism is the quick economic fix for poor nations, but it is also vital to rich ones — until both get too much of it. The places everyone
Photo: Shortly after the Supreme Court struck down a plan to grant student debt relief, the Biden administration came out with a trimmed-down plan. But when payments resume this fall for many people, it could cause real economic pain for some. Pro-student protesters rally at the court in a file photo from this summer. (File
This article originally appeared at JBartlett.org. As the Biden administration escalates its crusade against American energy, perhaps no state has more to lose than Alaska, where the oil industry and its tax dollars are responsible for up to a third of the state’s economic output and a quarter of its jobs. But some lawmakers in Juneau are considering taking a page out of
Five and a half. That’s the percentage of full- and part-time jobs in the U.S. economy attributable directly and indirectly to fossil fuels—a massive number, just under eleven million in total. Those figures are from a timely report demonstrating just how much the U.S. benefits from fossil fuel-related employment—and how much it stands to potentially
Photo: Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Director Karen Peters, with glasses, said the EPA’s proposed “good neighbor plan” – to protect downwind states from pollution drifting in from elsewhere – is “crucial” to Arizona’s ability to meet clean-air standards. (Photo by Alexis Waiss/Cronkite News) Arizona is doing all it can to improve air quality but