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Point & counterpoint | Energy: Steve Melink - Biden means business with clean energy Steve Melink FacebookTwitterEmail Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election is seen as a positive development by those who favor renewable forms of energy over fossil fuels. The Trump administration moved to reverse more than 100 climate and environmental rules, considering them burdensome to the fossil fuel industry. Biden, soon after taking the oath of office, took numerous actions to unravel Trump’s environmental policies, starting with executive orders to block the Keystone XL pipeline and...

Point & counterpoint | Energy: Craig Stevens - Agenda hurts American economy, security Craig Stevens FacebookTwitterEmail Despite campaign promises to invest in our nation’s infrastructure, create good-paying union jobs, and “build our economy back better,” President Biden’s track record from his first week in office is coming up short. On Day One, Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline. Then he signed an executive order halting oil and gas leasing on public lands. Now, “Keep it in the Ground” activists are calling on him to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, which has been sa...

Commentary: Donald Kirk - A sad milestone silently passes Donald Kirk FacebookTwitterEmail An important anniversary has slipped by. It was last January, the year 2020, while visiting Hong Kong for a few days, that I started seeing stories about a strange new virus diagnosed in the industrial Chinese city of Wuhan. The first headlines didn’t seem like a big deal. Some “experts” were saying the virus had been found in Wuhan and nowhere else. Still, those early reports did kindle memories. No one forgot SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that erupted in China in 2002. That dread d...

Commentary: Margaret Menge - School closings compound pandemic blues Margaret Menge FacebookTwitterEmail Things will get better soon, moms tell each other. But headlines — from Chicago, where the teachers union has adamantly refused to return to work; to Nashua, New Hampshire, where desperate parents are mounting a recall effort to remove pro-union members from the school board — offer little hope schools will reopen. President Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, has appeared to back the union’s anti-reopen stance, saying schools should wait for millions in new federal spending before ...

Commentary: Sheon Karol - Human resilience offers hope for the post-COVID future Sheon Karol FacebookTwitterEmail Are we resilient or emotionally fragile? Our society wrestles endlessly with this question. A new government has assumed power and our economic future will be determined by whether the Biden administration and investors view us as psychologically damaged, or able to withstand the suffering of the COVID period. Human fragility underlies the bleak view of the post-COVID world provided by “Scarring Body and Mind: The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19”, a paper deliver...