This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. A big, popular health care initiative could be on the chopping block if Donald Trump and his Republican allies win full control of the federal government in the November election. No, I’m not talking about the Affordable Care Act — although, as … Read more
President Joe Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Thursday to announce $7.3 billion in federal clean energy spending in rural communities across the country. The Biden administration is calling it the “largest investment in rural electrification” since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s. The funds, which will be divvied out to 16 … Read more
The first-ever negotiations between the federal government and pharmaceutical companies have led to agreements that will lower the prices of 10 treatments, reducing costs for the Medicare program and for some individual seniors, the Biden administration announced early Thursday morning. This round of negotiations began one year ago and took place because of the Inflation … Read more
Millions of new jobs, many in a flourishing new American manufacturing sector geared toward clean energy. Higher prices at the grocery store, but also more dollars in paychecks. A record low in the number of Americans without health insurance, plus a historic — if fleeting — reduction in child poverty. Stronger international alliances, amid a … Read more
WASHINGTON ― U.S. companies have created more than 300,000 clean energy jobs since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, according to a detailed new analysis from an environmental advocacy group. Climate Power, a left-leaning organization focused on combating climate change, has been tracking public announcements of clean energy … Read more
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), an outspoken critic of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, used the law to receive a grant to install solar panels at one of his car dealership locations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave a Uniontown dealership owned by Mike Kelly Automotive Group a nearly $315,000 grant to install a 261.9-kilowatt … Read more
Photo: Anna Rose Layden (Getty Images) As it turns out, lowering the price of an item makes that item sell better. This, in econ, means that item is “elastic” — and cars are certainly elastic. Based on Ford’s latest price drops on the Mustang Mach-E, EVs are no exception. Is The New Toyota Land Crusier … Read more
