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The last time I was so ecstatic about climate action was in 1987

Letters: Hogan administration has been a leader on climate change; More from readers | READER COMMENTARY

Your editorial, “Biden climate pledge resonates in Maryland even if not with its governor” completely misses the mark in its insinuations about the environmental record of Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration.

Power markets are not ready to maximize infrastructure investments

Published April 30, 2021 Danielle Ternes The following is a contributed article by Ben Hertz-Shargel, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center.  Decarbonizing the nation s electric grid and transportation system is one of the chief aims of the Biden administration s new infrastructure plan. The plan calls for significant investment in clean energy resources, such as offshore wind, as well as electric vehicles (EVs) and their charging infrastructure. Pundits initial focus has been on the jobs that the American Jobs Plan could create. Equally important, however, will be the returns on both public and private capital that the investments generate, and this will depend to a large degree on how well they are leveraged within power markets.

The collapse of big steel should be a warning for climate skeptics

© Getty Images For most of the last century, America was the king of steel. In 1900, the United States was the leading steel producer of the world. By the middle of the 20 th century, the United States was producing roughly half of the world’s supply. At the time, the U.S. steel industry employed up to 650,000 workers, with pay significantly above the national average wage. The U.S. dominance of the global steel industry contributed to the allied victory in two world wars. Steel was the symbol of American military strength and economic power. But by the late 1970s, the steel industry was under assault by rising economic powers. Fueled by low-cost labor and raw materials, government subsidies and investments in new technology, foreign producers rapidly gained market share. Yet, the U.S. government chose not to act on clear-eyed assessments of the need to invest in modernizing the American steel industry, opting for a

Have Biden and the Democrats already hit their high water mark?

It also may be the Democrats domestic high water mark. All the more important that the president went big (I wrongly thought perhaps a little too big), heard out Republicans who weren t interested in what was needed, and with skillful congressional leaders kept remarkable unity within the disparate Democratic caucuses; it was backed by the ultra-liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ADVERTISEMENT The $1.9 trillion measure will get the country back sooner to near normal, after the pandemic scourge, expedite school openings and accelerate an economic boom in the second half of this year. It will ease the sufferings of those millions still out of work, take 13 million out of poverty, and could cut child poverty in half.

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