‘We don’t treat humanitarian crises the same way’: Donating to Syria earthquake victims is challenging, despite easing of U.S. sanctions

Even with the relaxation of U.S. sanctions, some activists and aid groups are finding it hard to quickly get relief funds to where they are needed in Syria. Read More...

Reuters

Biden’s clean energy factory jobs may elude U.S. union workers

President Joe Biden has pledged that fighting climate change will deliver millions of middle-class jobs with good wages to Americans with union membership cards. But in the six months since passage of Biden’s signature climate change law, a large majority of the $50 billion of announced investments in domestic manufacturing to support the clean energy transition has been in states with laws that make it harder for workers to unionize, according to a Reuters analysis of corporate and state announcements. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes tax credits for businesses that produce clean energy components in the United States, and provides higher credits for developers of renewable energy projects if they use products made domestically.