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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights In the pantheon of dramatic climate pledges, President Joe Biden’s Thursday on electrifying the U.S. car industry in the next decade was about as...
One type of crime has surged in most large American cities in the past year. That crime is homicide.
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights I’m not big on the theories that everything will change once we emerge from our Covid hibernation, but one area I’ve been impressed with is the sudden...
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis shows that Maine is the least expensive state in which to drive a car. See why.
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis shows that Louisiana is the most expensive state in which to drive a car. See why.
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights As if the world of calculating forest and natural assets to be used as carbon offsets for big polluting businesses isn’t complicated enough, now...
One country invests more in the production of plastic than any other nation, company or organization in the world.
Detroit is the most battered large city in America. It has lost half of its population, down to 670,000, since 1950, as car manufacturing facilities and headquarters have moved elsewhere. The city...
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights With climate change impact bearing down hard around the world this month and G20 leaders failing to agree to reduce coal consumption over the weekend, or...
The National Park Service calls Death Valley National Park the "hottest, driest and lowest" national park.
By Justin Sharon (Justin Sharon is a longtime freelance writer. After working at Merrill Lynch for many years, he transitioned to financial journalism. Among other subjects, he also authors a monthly...
Congress was the least trusted institution in 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time in 2020.
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights The way to get rich in a gold rush is to sell shovels, they say. The same appears to be holding true for climate change investments. So far this year,...
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that sleeping was the activity in which the largest percentage of Americans spent time.