Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions

More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.

Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows

How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.

Germany to Keep Three Nuclear Plants Going Past Old Shut-Down Date to Alleviate Energy Crunch

Germany looks a wee bit desperate as it suddendly moves to keep three nuclear reactors in producion that were set for shutdown

Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills

Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance

Climate Bill Passes: It Could Short-Circuit EV Tax Credits, Making Qualifying for Them Nearly Impossible

Did Joe Manchin sneak an EV poison pill of sorts into the just-passed climate legislation?

The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming

Supporters of cutting carbon emissions to tackle global warming have long struggled against advocates of climate-change adaptation strategies

Energy Workers to Stage More Protests as Companies Raise Bills but Not Pay

Employees at Drax, Grangemouth and other energy sites will walk out every fortnight as firms rake in huge profits.

How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives

Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.

The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change

Why the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency looks more like hacker than jurisprudence.

The Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just the Sacklers’ Fault – and Making Purdue Pharma Pay Isn’t Enough on Its Own to Fix the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Deeper Problems

Focusing on the Sacklers as villains obscures the problems that permeate the entire pharmaceutical industry.

PredictIt: The Closing of a Prediction Market

PredictIt is likely to shutter. A look at how contract holders may win or lose, as well as the loss of a window into voter sentiment.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-One: Uber’s Legitimate Cumulative Losses Top $32 Billion; P&L Improvements Driven by Much Higher Fares and Multi-Billion Dollar Transfers From Drivers to Shareholders

Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.

The Dying American Southwest

Will people abandon the American Southwest or fight like hell to keep it?