Follow live updates as the Senate votes on the debt ceiling bill. Environmental activists are enraged by the deal struck between President Biden and Republicans to raise the debt ceiling because it would also expedite construction of a bitterly contested gas pipeline and includes unusual measures to insulate that project from judicial review. The $6.6 […]
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A Once-Promising Green Energy Technology Hits a Roadblock
As part of The Times’s coverage of the global climate summit last year, I wrote an article about a project in Nova Scotia designed to create renewable electricity from the Bay of Fundy’s exceptional tides. Now, a regulatory roadblock means that the pilot project may soon shut down. The Bay of Fundy’s extraordinary tides have […]
As Taliban Settle In, Kabul’s Green Zone Comes Back to Life
Scattered across a neighborhood in central Kabul are the ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan. Tattered sandbags and piles of discarded barbed wire. Metal hulls of tank traps sitting unused on the side of the road. Red-and-white metal barriers, once lowered to stop vehicles at checkpoints manned 24/7, permanently pointing toward the […]