Electric utilities don’t make money from selling power to customers, but instead profit from investments in power plants, wires, substations and other equipment.
The rapidly growing popularity of prediction markets is sparking worries about the markets’ effects on US politics, where campaign staff has bet on its candidate’s electoral performance.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, American politicians have been slow to take on climate change and curb carbon dioxide emissions, under the assumption that doing so might pass along costs to their voters. Ironically, their failure to rein in fossil fuel emissions has yielded the […]
In DC, a sad, racist old man celebrated his 80th birthday with an event juicing his crypto businesses. In New York, thousands danced and sang and learned about each other.