Tag: Tennessee Valley Authority
What the DeSantis and Newsom Debate Revealed
The best way to understand last week’s unusual debate between Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Ron DeSantis of Florida is to think of them less as representatives of different political parties than as ambassadors from different countries.
Thursday night’s debate on Fox News probably won’t much change the arc of either man’s career. DeSantis is still losing altitude in the 2024 GOP presidential race, and Newsom still faces years of auditioning before Democratic leaders and voters for a possible
This Public Utility Has a Path Toward Clean Energy. Environmentalists Hate It.
On November 10 of last year, at a place called Paradise in western Kentucky, the Tennessee Valley Authority blew up the cooling towers of a large coal-fired power plant. The three stout towers, each 435 feet high, buckled at the waist in synchrony, then crumpled like crushed soda cans. Within 10 seconds, they’d collapsed into a billowing cloud of dust.
To anyone who watched the demolition happen, or saw the footage online, the message was clear: TVA, a sprawling,
The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia
If you wanted to understand why flipping through Stacy Kranitz’s recent photography book, As It Was Give(n) to Me, feels like plunging your head into ice water, you could ponder the omission of captions that might have contextualized her images of Appalachia. You could dwell on the dissonant chord struck by mixing beauty pageants, burning cars, and bloody teeth together on the page.
Or you could consider a moment in January 1944, when a lanky Kentucky soldier disembarked from
Das große offene Geheimnis des Green New Deal: Es existiert nicht
Jede Woche bringt Ihnen unser leitender Klimareporter die großen Ideen, Expertenanalysen und wichtige Ratschläge, die Ihnen helfen, auf einem sich verändernden Planeten zu gedeihen. Melden Sie sich an, um zu erhalten Ter Wochenplanet, Unser Leitfaden zum Leben durch den Klimawandel in Ihrem Posteingang.
Der Green New Deal hat seit seinem Aufstieg im Jahr 2018 die Begriffe der globalen Klimadebatte bestimmt. Vielleicht war keine andere Klimapolitik in der Geschichte so erfolgreich. Demokraten und Republikaner wurden gleichermaßen danach beurteilt, wie