DOE’s inspector general warned just weeks earlier that loan program carries ‘significant risk of fraud’ Jigar Shah (energy.gov), hydrogen facility (Plug Power Inc./X) President Joe Biden’s departing green energy loan czar this week finalized a controversial $1.6 billion federal loan to a green energy company with which he had prior financial ties—a farewell shot at
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
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
‘Don’t sit there wringing your hands, going, “I’m not going to get the Jewish vote,” because that’s just not the case,’ Scarborough says MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday that Jewish Americans will always vote Democratic, even if the party becomes tougher on Israel and puts conditions on military aid to the Jewish state. “After
Comedy expert offers creative editorial assistance to Andy Borowitz Jennifer Rubin’s new #Resistance website, the Contrarian, is determined to establish itself as a cultural force. “We’ll have a humor column!” Rubin’s co-founder, Norm Eisen, explained with considerable enthusiasm earlier this week. “We’ll even have a cooking column, but we’re going to sprinkle in a little bit
Ohio lieutenant governor Jon Husted will replace Vice President-elect J.D. Vance in the Senate, Gov. Mike DeWine (R.) announced Friday. Husted, who had plans to launch a gubernatorial bid to succeed term-limited DeWine, will instead serve as Ohio’s junior senator until a special election in November 2026. Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, whom President-elect
Hoffman’s board position sparked Republican outcry over his Jeffrey Epstein ties, remarks about making Trump a ‘martyr’ Reid Hoffman speaks in San Francisco, California. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED) Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman appears to have quietly left a premier Pentagon advisory board after the election of Donald Trump, raising questions about whether he quit