Economy & Business

"Data-Center Power Forecasts Climb To Unreachable Heights"

"Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in fossil gas."

Source: Canary Media, 11/19/2025

Middle Class Is Struggling As Disaster And Insurance Costs Are Rising

"Three years after Hurricane Ian slammed into Fort Myers Beach, jackhammers still echo along the barrier island's main road, where new houses and businesses are going up next to vacant lots and the shells of buildings gutted by the storm."

Source: NPR, 11/18/2025

EPA Moves To Limit Scope Of Clean Water Law To Reduce Wetlands It Covers

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for vast areas."

Source: AP, 11/18/2025

The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’

In “We Are Eating the Earth,” author Michael Grunwald explains masterfully how good intentions have led us astray over our food system and climate change, writes BookShelf editor Tom Henry. Whether it’s our obsession with meat, myths about biofuels and regenerative agriculture, or feel-good ideas based on bad science, Grunwald argues it’s time for a fundamental shift in values.

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"Zeldin Kept Up EPA Roadshow During Shutdown"

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s travel didn’t cease over what has become the federal government’s longest funding lapse in history." "In a sign of the Trump administration’s novel approach to the funding gap, the administrator traveled for 16 days during the shutdown."

Source: E&E News, 11/13/2025

"Judge Orders Trump Administration To Release Full SNAP Benefits By Friday"

"A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to release full funding for November’s food assistance benefits by Friday. It comes after the partial funding disbursed by the Agriculture Department earlier this week had yet to reach those who qualify for the benefits."

Source: Washington Post, 11/07/2025

"These Are The Environmental Programs To Be Cut Under Carney’s First Budget"

"Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget scales back rules around greenwashing, and hints an oil and gas emissions cap is unlikely. But it introduces a youth climate corps and renews efforts to lift boil-water advisories"

Source: The Narwhal, 11/06/2025

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