DOT opens public comment on plan to hike fuel costs during affordability crisis

  • December 7, 2025
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Former reality TV contestant Sean Duffy. Photo by Gage Skidmore This week, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to make cars less efficient when Americans are already paying record-high energy bills during an affordability crisis fueled by tariff-driven inflation. That plan is now up for public comment. Since the beginning of this year, […]

I got a 5-ton electric tractor from China. Here’s what showed up

  • December 7, 2025
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When a 40-foot container rolled up to my property and the doors swung open, I finally got to meet a machine I’d only last seen half-finished on a factory floor in China. Sitting up front, nose practically pressed against the container doors, was my new 10,000-plus-pound (4,700 kg) electric tractor: the NESHER L3000 wheel loader. […]

Maha v Maga: feud grows as Trump EPA rolls back rules on toxic chemicals

  • December 7, 2025
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Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, in Washington in February. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters View image in fullscreen Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, in Washington in February. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters Maha v Maga: feud grows as Trump EPA rolls back rules on toxic chemicals ‘Make America healthy again’ leaders call for Lee Zeldin to quit for favoring […]

Luigi Mangione court hearings gave a preview of gripping trial to come

  • December 7, 2025
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Luigi Mangione at an evidentiary hearing with attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo (left) and Marc Agnifilo (right) in New York, on 4 December. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Luigi Mangione at an evidentiary hearing with attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo (left) and Marc Agnifilo (right) in New York, on 4 December. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty […]