Government Takeover by Fossil Fuels Will Backfire: Mark Gongloff

Fungus enthusiasts and fans of the video game/TV show The Last of Us will be familiar with cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that invades insects and forces them to do its bidding until they die. It’s a great deal for the cordyceps, which uses its hosts to expand its reach. For the insects, not so much.

The takeover of the US government by the fossil-fuel industry during the second Trump administration threatens to do similar harm to its host body.

President Donald Trump’s current government includes 43 former employees of the industry, according to a study by the nonprofit advocacy groups Public Citizen and The ...