Dan Karney

How EPA Rollbacks Will Cost Us—in Dollars and Lives A deregulatory agenda will be just as damaging to our economy as it will be to our climate and health.

No matter where we live or what we look like, most of us want to breathe clean air and live in a healthy climate. But these rollbacks will expose America's families to more toxic pollution and climate disasters.

Lemme explain what bilateral trade deficits are, so that you can better understand -- and perhaps be infuriated by -- the intellectual error that's transforming our economy. #TeachEcon

Real Capitalism™ is the President telling an individual corporation how to set its prices.

Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.

Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city.

Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025

Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Fed didn't use the word "stagflation", but that's what it's warning about.

Never a good moment when your central bank says that it's worried about *both* higher unemployment and higher inflation. That's a problem that monetary policy alone can't solve.

Federal appeals court upholds conviction of Householder in public corruption case • Ohio Capital Journal A panel of federal court judges has upheld the convictions of former House Speaker Larry Householder and former Republican leader Matt Borges for their roles in the largest public corruption scheme…

A panel of federal court judges has upheld the convictions of former House Speaker Larry Householder and former Republican leader Matt Borges for their roles in the largest public corruption scheme in state history.

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

The Trump administration says it will cut EPA staffing to Reagan-era levels EPA announced plans to reorganize the agency, moving science-focused staff into different roles and reducing the overall number of employees.

EPA announced plans to reorganize the agency, moving science-focused staff into different roles and reducing the overall number of employees.

Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

Ohio University to close Pride Center, Women's Center and Multicultural Center due to new law • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio University will close the Pride Center, the Women’s Center, and the Multicultural Center in response to a new higher education law banning diversity efforts.

Ohio University will close the Pride Center, the Women’s Center and the Multicultural Center in response to a new higher education law banning diversity efforts that takes effect this summer, the university president announced Tuesday.

Are we banning sales tax line items on receipts too? Hiding the income tax rate schedule?

Ohio’s HB 6 utility scandal gets true-crime treatment in HBO film • Ohio Capital Journal One of the largest utility scandals in U.S. history has remained largely unknown outside Ohio — until now.

One of the largest utility scandals in U.S. history has remained largely unknown outside Ohio — until now.

The Lego Blocks of Lies: How Russian Propaganda Builds and Rebuilds Itself Continued vigilance is vital to combat disinformation

Russia’s propaganda machine is modular, relentless, and designed to overwhelm. Learn how it works and how to recognize it.

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it."

And then... I lost it.

Who wants to make Ohio polluted again? • Ohio Capital Journal We are old enough to remember an Ohio where children weren’t allowed to swim in or even touch lake waters; where smog, haze and air quality alerts were the norm and not the exception. Without the…

Commentary We are old enough to remember an Ohio where children weren’t allowed to swim in lake waters; where smog and air quality alerts were the norm not the exception. Without the federal government’s oversight of polluters we risk those days returning buff.ly/8ZF3rS8

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale (Gift Article) The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

There are many ways to improve regulations, and surely some that should be rescinded altogether. But Ctrl-A + delete of the Code of Federal Regulations is a recipe for a life that is short, nasty, and brutish.

From Coral Davenport @ the new NYT Regulation desk:

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Youngstown State University faculty are trying stop Ohio's new higher education law • Ohio Capital Journal A group of Youngstown State University faculty members are trying to stop a massive Ohio higher education law by taking it to the voters. They are collecting signatures in the hopes of trying to get…

A group of Youngstown State University faculty members are trying to stop a massive Ohio higher education law by taking it to the voters. They are collecting signatures in the hopes of trying to get a referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot buff.ly/xXAmJvz

Here's my forecast of where the Trump tariff war will end up: He'll negotiate outcomes that are basically identical to the very low (and often zero) tariffs we already have. And declare that he's managed to negotiate low tariffs. Perhaps a political win, but definitely no economic gain.

Economics might seem -- from the outside -- like it's about competition. But really it's about creating the miracle of cooperation, where folks from all around the world enrich your day in a million tiny ways. It's that beauty that I'm worried about losing.

Inflation expectations have spiked dramatically.

Trump aims to shut down state climate policies • Ohio Capital Journal President Donald Trump has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy.

President Donald Trump has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy.

What are we doing here?

We know many people don’t click into the story.

www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

Opinion | Trump’s Tariffs Will Change Your Life (Gift Article) Justin Wolfers on how the tariffs will radically change our daily lives.

I pitched my NYT editor that folks really need to understand that the deadweight loss of tariffs rises in the square of the tariff rate. Despite the wonkiness of it all, they said yes--as long as you can explain that intuitively.

Lemme know how I did:

As Trump throws the world economy into chaos with his tariff trade war, here's what Ohio can expect • Ohio Capital Journal Here's the real kick about how President Donald Trump's tariffs are going to hike prices for everything: Once that happens, even if the tariffs go away, the prices are never, ever going back down…

Editor Commentary: The White House expects Trump’s tariffs to raise $6 trillion in tax revenue. That would be the largest tax hike in U.S. history. It will cost most Ohio families between $1,200 and $,3,000 in buying power, depending on income and spending.

The Bipartisan Beginnings of the Clean Water Act In the dark hours before dawn on Oct. 18, 1972, U.S. Senators and Representatives took the floor, one by one, to defy their president. The debate that night, and in the months preceding it, is a windo...

In 1972, Congress overwhelmingly overrode Nixon’s veto of the Clean Water Act—because Americans demanded action on pollution. The bipartisan moment, while admittedly rare, proves that when the public speaks loudly enough, leaders listen.

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Trump says his tariffs will raise $6 trillion.

Assuming that's over 10 years, that's $600 billion per year.

There are 134 million households, so this is nearly $5,000 per household per year.

And it's like a sales tax, so it's a flat tax. A huge hit to the budgets of working folks.

Republican playbook in Ohio mirrors Trump's union-busting and attacks on voters and education • Ohio Capital Journal Chilling freedom of speech in education with legal and financial threats, union-busting of public workers, attacking voter access to the ballot box by lying about fraud and claiming you're "restoring…

Commentary: Chilling freedom of speech in education with legal and financial threats, union-busting public workers, attacking voter access to the ballot box by lying about fraud and claiming you're "restoring trust," Trump and Ohio Republicans are running the same playbook.