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A Guardian of Federal Lands, Lambasted by Left and Right

A Guardian of Federal Lands, Lambasted by Left and Right

by Grant Schwab | May 21, 2023 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Few people seem happy with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and her department’s management of energy resources on federal lands and waters. To this day, a particular focus of indignation is her handling of a December lease auction for oil extraction...
Backers hope Inflation Reduction Act incentives spur business in Southwest Virginia

Backers hope Inflation Reduction Act incentives spur business in Southwest Virginia

by Grant Schwab | Apr 11, 2023 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — As the Inflation Reduction Act ushers in generous new tax credits linked to renewables, backers are hopeful that regions once dependent on coal, like Southwest Virginia, could be among its beneficiaries. “If it’s not a watershed moment for a...
Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?

Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?

by Grant Schwab | Jan 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured

While the prospects for a bitterly divided Congress to produce further ambitious climate legislation are almost nonexistent, newly named Republican leaders of key House committees say they want to help bring the U.S. closer to its emissions goal. “There’s...
Senate committee ponders crypto regulation in wake of FTX collapse

Senate committee ponders crypto regulation in wake of FTX collapse

by Grant Schwab | Dec 1, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured

The story of FTX’s collapse is one of intra-office romantic entanglements, a prescient commercial by the company comically predicting its own demise, a stadium naming-rights deal gone sour, and an unintentional tell-all interview. It’s also a story of Congress failing...
House considers adding non-voting delegate for Cherokee Nation

House considers adding non-voting delegate for Cherokee Nation

by Grant Schwab | Nov 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — The Cherokee Nation could soon have a non-voting delegate in Congress. Creating the role would fulfill a promise from a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the U.S. federal government. “Why now?” Chuck Hoskin Jr., the Principal Chief of the Cherokee...
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