The bully has a new plan to make foreign students' lives difficult: bar them from the US if their schools are classes online.

Distance learning, as such, is not wrong. (Whether it is as good for learning as being in a university and going to classes physically is an open question, outside my expertise.) However, they are almost surely doing it with nonfree software, and that is an injustice.

I expect the bully is doing this simply as another way to express hostility to foreigners, and is not interested in what the universities do. But if this does convince some universities to stop making students use nonfree software, that will be a positive side effect.

There is a glut of natural gas, due to faster than expected construction of renewable electric generation. Many proposed natural gas terminals are being canceled.

Indeed, a major US fracking company recently went bankrupt.

So what is California Governor Newsom thinking when he authorizes continued fracking and even new wells?

Efforts to shift global "development" loans away from fossil fuels need to move quickly, if they are to substantially reduce global heating disaster.

*UK's big accountancy firms told to split off audit arms by 2024.*

This will eliminate an important kind of moral hazard. All countries should do this.

The companies that wanted to develop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have given up on the project. Years of resistance helped to bring this about.