POLITICS

The Biden Admin Forced Gas and Coal Plants To Embrace Carbon Capture—Then Privately Told Climate Activists To Fight It

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Last April, the Biden administration finalized environmental rules that effectively force gas and coal plants to adopt carbon capture—an expensive and controversial process in which emissions are stored underground—or risk shutting down. Months later, in November, a senior Biden EPA official told activists to “keep fighting” an ExxonMobil carbon capture project in Texas, the Washington Free

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel Stepping Down Before Trump Inauguration

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‘The best way to support a successful transition is to depart the IRS on Jan. 20,’ he says. The head of the IRS said he is stepping down just before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. “After significant introspection and consultation with others, I’ve determined the best way to support a successful transition is to depart the

Biden and Harris Declare the Equal Rights Amendment ‘the Law of the Land.’ It Isn’t.

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris declared on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is “the law of the land.” It isn’t, as Biden and Harris do not have the authority to approve constitutional amendments, their statements carry no legal weight, and the U.S. archivist tasked with certifying the amendment has repeatedly