Americans lease electric cars for Biden tax credits

TL/DR - Around 52% of EVs were leased in November 2021 as customers took advantage of a $7,500 tax credit from the Biden administration's clean energy subsidies. Leasing allows car shoppers to apply the full tax credit to an electric vehicle, regardless of whether the car meets benchmarks for parts produced in North America that apply if the…

Cortez Masto Propels Bill to Introduce Water Management Innovations

TL/DR - US Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's bipartisan Open Access Evapotranspiration (OpenET) Act has passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The bill aims to make water data more accessible to help conserve resources and combat drought, particularly in the West. The OpenET Act would create a Department of the Interior program…

Who Exactly is Shawn Still?

TL/DR - Shawn Still, current Georgia state senator and former finance chair for the Georgia Republican Party, is one of the 19 defendants indicted in the Fulton County grand jury investigation into the alleged 2020 scheme to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia. Still, along with 15 others, signed a fake electoral college…