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Across the United States, energy demand jumped in the last two years with the advent of advanced AI and the sharp growth in data centers that consume large amounts of electricity.

Since 2022, total energy generation has increased 128 terawatt-hours for the first six months of the year (January to June), or about 6 percent. In July, regional transmission operator (RTO) P...


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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, is easily the largest public pension plan in the U.S. with over $556 billion in assets under control.

It is constantly the target of shareholder activism over investment decisions that not only affect the retirement benefits of thousands of state workers, but they set the direction of pension plan investme...


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What was known as Climategate was a 2009 controversy surrounding hacked emails on a server at the University of East Anglia. As a result, messages between prominent climate researchers like Michael Mann, Keith Briffa, and Phil Jones were leaked to the public, and critics then zeroed in on passages that ostensibly showed the researchers manipulating data to get the outcome the...


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A prior Investigative Economics article detailed how moving the mentally ill out of large psychiatric institutions into outpatient care or smaller community health facilities—otherwise known as deinstitutionalization—is commonly associated wi...


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