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Extreme heat caused by emissions from 111 fossil fuel companies cost an estimated $28 trillion between 1991 and 2020, according to researchers at Dartmouth College.

They won’t bring back manufacturing, and they could stunt our ability to make tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

Consumers and businesses have been racing to place orders before Trump’s import taxes drive up prices, but experts foresee a sharp slowdown in the months ahead.

Several firms have cut their profit forecasts or withdrawn them citing economic uncertainty.

Bob Gurr, the designer of the monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Haunted Mansion “doom buggies” and more, isn’t slowing down.

The most popular condiment in Ancient Rome was garum. Pliny the Elder reported that garum was made from salted, fermented fish intestines. Producing this delectable apparently stank so much that production facilities were relegated to the outskirts of towns and cities.

Towns near the Canadian border are suffering. Last month, Nicholas Gilbert received a delivery of grain for the 1,400 cows he tends at his dairy farm in Potsdam, New York, 20 miles from the Ontario border. The feed came with a surprise tariff of $2,200 tacked on.

When Congress voted to normalize trade relations with China at the beginning of this century, U.S. manufacturers braced for a stream of cheap goods to begin flowing into U.S. ports. Instead, they got a flood.

Here’s how it works. You want to buy a thing. Let’s say you want to buy a suit of plate mail armor. Let’s say your favorite plate mail armor is made in Slovenia.

In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see the product data sheet.