- Brad Plumer
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Brad Plumer is a reporter at the Washington Post writing about domestic policy, particularly energy and environmental issues.
- How Americans use energy, in three simple charts
- Key economic events for the week of May 28
- U.S. cut its carbon emissions in 2011 — but China erased the gains
- College tuition is out of control — or is it?
- Reconciliation
- Auto sales are propping up the U.S. economy
- Another reason Europe’s in crisis? A high oil bill
- Why can’t the Fed just prevent the ‘fiscal cliff’?
- How to avert the end of fish? A little fish forensics might help
- Lunch break: The world’s smallest fire truck
- Just how dirty are Canada’s oil sands, anyway?
- Mapping the global water trade
- Will self-driving cars mean the end of parking?
- Lunch break: Opening a beer with a chainsaw
- What austerity looks like around the world
- In a rare statement, Bain Capital addresses Obama ad
- Perhaps Greece won’t leave the euro, after all
- Lunch break: Solar eclipse, chromosphere edition
- Will cheap shale gas revive U.S. manufacturing? Not so fast.
- The end of fish, in one chart
- Why are Americans moving less? Perhaps they don’t need to.
- Lunch break: The hoverboards that never were
- Public transportation is habit-forming — and that’s a problem!
- U.S. slaps tariffs on Chinese panels. Is this the end of cheap solar?
- How bad would it be for Greece to leave the euro?
- How ‘Taxmageddon’ would affect the U.S. economy
- What the oil industry wants — in charts
- Lunch break: Europe’s shifting borders
- How a bank run could force Greece out of the euro
- Reconciliation
- Just how big can car-sharing get?
- Will America’s labor-force dropouts ever come back?
- Reconciliation
- FAQ: Why is Greece in such trouble? And can it be fixed?
- Americans would pay more for clean energy. Would Congress?
- Congress turns its attention to... America’s helium crisis
- Dwindling helium stockpile has Congress, businesses worried
- Reconciliation
- Unemployment insurance is vanishing, even as jobs are scarce
- JPMorgan’s $2 billion loss could have broad implications for financial industry
- A JPMorgan explainer
- True oil independence is an unrealistic dream
- Reconciliation
- For public transit, the recession’s still not over
- The geography of U.S. manufacturing
- Reconciliation
- Yes, there’s been austerity in Europe
- What cookstoves tell us about the limits of technology
- Are there any alternatives to austerity? Six ideas for fixing Europe
- Why is austerity so unpopular in Europe? Because it’s not working.
- Who are the long-term unemployed?
- Jobs report: As fewer try to find work, unemployment rate drops to 8.1 percent
- The incredible shrinking labor force
- April jobs report: The recovery softens
- Can you trust the mileage sticker on your car?
- How economists have misunderstood inequality: An interview with James Galbraith
- Very few things are more implausible than the euro zone
- Should the Pentagon buy more jets — or Spain?
- Who uses renewable power, in one map
- How the U.S. could influence China’s coal habits — with exports
- Can road repairs ever pay for themselves?
- Reconciliation
- No, wind farms are not causing global warming
- Japan’s finding it’s not so easy to go nuclear-free
- Lunch break: Yosemite at night
- Report: World progress too slow on climate control
- How’s the world doing on its climate goals? Not so well.
- EPA faces crucial climate decision on diesel made from palm oil
- The EPA’s most important decision this year could be over... vegetable oil?
- Don’t get too worked up about today’s GDP numbers
- Even as economy picks up, food-stamp rolls expand
- Lunch break: The world’s transportation routes
- Is Rahm’s plan to rebuild Chicago brilliant — or disastrous?
- Reconciliation
- Lunch break: Obama slow jams the news
- How to calculate the true cost of energy
- Should we worry about cities abandoned by airlines?
- Inflation is everywhere! (Just not the kind you think)
- Reconciliation
- Could we lower gas prices by limiting fuel exports?
- Who actually relies on Social Security, in one chart
- French election: Five things that you’d never hear in the U.S.
- The environment’s getting worse, yet humanity’s doing better than ever. What gives?
- Reconciliation
- Why you should care about the French election
- Want to live near a good school? It will cost an extra $205,000
- High-speed rail isn’t the most efficient way to cut carbon emissions
- Do voters really flee high-tax states?
- Reconciliation
- As fracking booms, the EPA treads cautiously
- Which cities shape our musical tastes? Atlanta, Montreal and … Oslo
- Clean-energy subsidies are vanishing. What should replace them?
- Why is the U.S. wealthier than Europe? Give credit to its cities.
- Where our tax dollars go, in two charts
- Lunch break: The history of shipping lanes
- The top 10 fastest-growing U.S. industries (Hint: Think hot sauce)
- Reconciliation
- The best and worst states to charge an electric vehicle
- And the next World Bank president is… Jim Yong Kim
- Why the crisis in Spain could take years to fix
- Want more bikers? Build more bike lanes.
- Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala shakes up the campaign for World Bank president
- Can Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala break America’s hold on the World Bank?
- Oil prices edging downward bodes well for U.S. economy
- Will the exurbs ever make a comeback?
- Lunch break: How an iPad gets made
- If oil prices drop, how much will that boost the economy?
- Just how valuable are trees to a city?
- Tax day is even deadlier than you think
- Lunch break: Record-breaking Rube Goldberg machines
- How Detroit’s adapting to higher gas prices, in one chart
- Are there better ways to pay for college than student loans?
- Lunch break: The visual style of ‘The Wire’
- The top 10 dying industries in the United States
- Candidate to lead World Bank says organization needs ‘change of culture’
- Americans walk less than anyone else
- Very few countries have cut their carbon emissions without cheating
- What “pink slime” tells us about industrial food safety
- Lunch break: Watching the Titanic sink
- What happens to America’s coal if we don’t burn it?
- Where do people go when they drop out of the labor force?
- Could banning “pink slime” be bad for the planet?
- March jobs report: Just how bad is it?
- Sucking carbon dioxide out of the air: Neat idea, but impractical
- Why Spain’s now threatening to drag down Europe
- Why Saudi Arabia is losing its power to calm the oil markets
- The crisis in Europe took a big bite out of foreign aid
- How Detroit saved itself
- Auto industry’s higher sales reflect demand for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars
- Reconciliation
- New report tries to clear up debate over EPA and jobs
- Can passenger rail ever be profitable? Florida’s about to find out.
- Is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the best person for the World Bank job?
- How Americans spend money, compared with other countries
- More states privatizing their infrastructure. Are they making a mistake?
- White House sees more pain for Iran as it clears way for further sanctions
- As sanctions squeeze Iran, how will the world make up the lost oil?
- Is the current Supreme Court the most conservative ever?
- Figuring out which way the wind blows
- Mega Millions frenzy: Can you ever beat the lottery's long odds?
- GOP blocks Obama’s effort to end tax breaks for Big Oil
- Is it time to release oil from the strategic reserves?
- Why fracking and coal can’t get along
- Reconciliation
- Gas prices in Washington surpass $4 a gallon
- The EPA’s odd double standard on pollution rules
- Reconciliation
- Why EPA’s new carbon rules won’t have much impact — for now
- Reconciliation
- Does the Prius actually save gas? A closer look at the ‘rebound effect’
- Six days left for Congress to avoid highway Armageddon
- Federal regulators ‘could have prevented’ Upper Big Branch, W. Va. mine disaster, report concludes
- Is global warming to blame for the March heat?
- The pros and cons of having a doctor run the World Bank
- Reconciliation
- Where the speedwalkers are
- Does Apple prove that R&D is overrated?
- Why gas prices vary so much from one place to the next
- Why can’t we just leave infrastructure spending to the states?
- Who benefits from a solar trade war with China?
- Reconciliation
- What Paul Ryan’s budget actually cuts — and by how much
- Chinese foodies have the answer to our Asian carp woes
- Apple’s suppliers get all the attention in China. Why?
- Apple’s $45 billion announcement: What it tells us about the tax code
- Economists agree: Pay attention to March Madness!
- Should we get rid of time zones?
- ‘This American Life’ retracts its exposé of Apple. But all’s still not well in China.
- Is Congress setting itself up for a pension crisis?
- Does the minimum wage kill people?
- What’s going to kill us in 2050? Air pollution — and lots of it
- Research you can use (in a bear fight)
- In two years, Congress won’t have any money for transportation
- For once, the Senate tries to make highway spending less irrational
- As gas prices soar, U.S. driving habits shift — but slowly
- Lunch break: How to draw Bugs Bunny
- Yahoo sues Facebook. Are software patents out of control?
- Reconciliation
- Why are wages still stagnant? Blame the labor market
- Even Germany isn’t good at German-style austerity
- Did Fukushima make it tougher to tackle global warming?
- Lunch break: Ants on a scanner
- Can a penny dropped off a skyscraper kill a person?
- Why gas prices aren’t likely to decide the 2012 election
- Daylight saving time — still mostly a scam
- Reconciliation
- Did Greece just default? Sort of.
- Software patents are impractical — unless we’ve got 2 million extra lawyers
- February jobs report: ‘Let’s call it a recovery’
- Get ready for chaos if Congress can’t agree on a highway bill
- Lunch break: Local reporter bored by Super Tuesday
- Bernanke’s overly-complicated stimulus idea
- Why cities can’t tackle global warming on their own
- Europe won’t doom Obama’s re-election bid
- Gas prices hurt red states more than blue states
- Lunch break: Robotic cheetahs
- Lack of sleep makes us more easily distracted by the Internet
- Oil could make the crisis in Europe so much worse
- Obama unveils housing initiatives for military, FHA families
- Reconciliation
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