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Alerts A large section of Manhattan’s Upper West Side and Midtown neighborhoods are seen in darkness from above during a major power outage on July 13, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Scott Heins (Getty Images) Two years ago, New York enshrined the most ambitious statewide climate targets in the country. The legislation, called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, requires the state to completely decarbonize its electric grid by 2040 and reduce emissions from all sectors by 85% within the following decade. Advertisement A bill that’s currently gaining support in the New Yor...

Isaiah J. Poole Contributor Isaiah J. Poole is editorial manager for the Democracy Collaborative and its research arm, the Next System Project. Before joining the Democracy Collaborative in 2018, he was communications director for People's Action and for the Campaign for America's Future. Poole has more than 30 years of experience in journalism, both as a reporter covering Washington D.C.-area and national politics and as a news and features editor. He also was a founding member of both the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association. M...

Skip to main content Currently Reading As Senate rushes $1.9 trillion bill through Congress, Biden faces doubts over whether it's still the right package Jeff Stein, Heather Long and Erica Werner, The Washington Post March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail President Biden speaks about the Paycheck Protection Program at the White House on Feb. 22.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford. WASHINGTON - It was dark days when, six days before his inauguration, President Joe Biden first released his $1.9 trillion relief proposal. The economic recovery was backsliding, covid-19 cases were surging, and va...

Critics have questioned numerous facets of the stimulus plan Democrats are rushing to pass.

Alerts Customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas last week. Photo: LM Otero (AP) Right now, Texas is in the balmy mid-50s. Yet just a week ago, it was colder than Alaska, and we all know what happened next. Much of the state’s energy capacity got knocked offline, leaving millions of people without power, heat, and water for days. Advertisement The extreme weather itself was an anomaly, caused by a particularly nasty blast of chilly Arctic air from the polar vortex. In many ways, there couldn’t have been a worse part of the country f...