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This week, the Kleinman Center leaves for New Delhi to complete our 2018 Carnot Prize presentation to Indian Minister of Coal and Railways Shri Piyush Goyal. As we reconvene in India, a new teaching moment stands out as India appears to be turning from coal more rapidly than many analysts initially thought.
Dec03
2018
Part 1: Explaining PGW’s LNG Proposal
Part one of this two-part series explains the basics of Philadelphia Gas Works' LNG optimization proposal.
Dec03
2018
The Death Throes of Climate Denialism
Over time, climate denying politicians will need to seriously consider the wisdom of denying the obvious, as once-in-a-century heatwaves become annual, and drought and floods become regular occurrences in the red heartland of the country.
Nov14
2018
Pennsylvania’s Gas Discount is Fading
Pennsylvania's natural gas price discount to the Henry Hub is narrowing, even as production soars. The reason? New takeaway pipeline capacity is coming online and moving gas out of state.
Nov09
2018
How Deep Is Oil and Gas Industry Commitment To Cut Methane Leaks?
Major oil and gas companies have pledged to reduce methane leaks. But will their emissions cuts be enough?
Nov08
2018
Negative Emissions Won't Rescue Us From Climate Change
Negative emissions technologies hold limited promise, as economic, logistic and scale realities will severely limit their climate benefit.
Nov06
2018
Prospects or Non-Prospects of a Severance Tax
Pennsylvania is a huge natural gas state that has thus far alluded establishing a severance tax. But will that change?
Nov02
2018
EVs Mean Growth for These Businesses
In October, cumulative sales of plug-in electric vehicles in the U.S. hit the one million mark. That is good for the environment, and these businesses, too!
Oct15
2018
The Hubbub About Gas Storage Levels
Explore the impacts of the U.S. heading into the winter peak gas demand season with the lowest storage inventories since 2005. The short version, it's all about prices.
Oct08
2018
On Climate, Forget 2 Degrees. Let's Talk Net Zero
By emphasizing temperature goals, it's relatively easy for nations to appear to be doing more to address climate change than they really are, and harder for the public to discern the shortfall.
Oct03
2018
The Inevitable Policy Response Theory
Christina Simeone writes about Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) which predicts a rapid and forceful international policy reaction to climate change with widespread financial implications.
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