President Joe Biden's efforts this week to decarbonize federal buildings are part of a grand tradition of administrations using their purchasing power for environmental ends.
K Street snapped to attention with tens of millions of dollars in federal aid at stake to help the Mississippi capital rebuild its collapsing water system.
Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them “buccaneers and pirates.”