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Proposed US Rule Would Inhibit ESG Funds As Retirement Investments

An analysis of more than 8,700 public comments on the proposed US rule change limiting environmental, social, and governance investing in Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)-governed retirement plans finds overwhelming opposition. Yet the Trump administration is forging ahead in attempts to beat the November 3 US election date and to make the rule permanent.

Mitch McConnell Leaves Kentucky Nearly Last In Everything While Drowning Democracy & US Progress In…

Kentucky is known as a coal state. What has happened to coal under Donald Trump’s presidency is exactly what Hillary Clinton said would happen. Clinton was vilified for her statements on this, but her clear point if you listened to the full statement was that there was no saving or reviving the coal industry — the free market was killing it — and the important thing was to have a plan for what coal miners and others in the industry could

Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Offshore Wind Energy

Offshore Wind Resources Are Abundant: Offshore wind has the potential to deliver large amounts of clean, renewable energy to fulfill the electrical needs of cities along U.S. coastlines. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that the technical resource potential for U.S. offshore wind is more than 2,000 gigawatts of capacity, or 7,200 terawatt-hours per year of generation.