These are the “carrots” of President Biden’s climate and energy legacy. But his administration has also broken new ground in imposing the “sticks” that climate experts say are needed to curb the unfettered extraction and consumption of planet-warming fossil fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken the lead on this front. The agency has finalized … Continue reading “Goodbye to the first climate president”
At least a couple of presidents have been drivers of electric cars, but they’re not all in the recent past. Our 34th President, Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower, may have been one of the first. Long before Ike became perhaps the 20th century’s most famous general, Eisenhower drove around in an early electric car that belonged … Continue reading “The first electric-car president? Ike Eisenhower liked them”
