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Mining Indigenous Communities: A Long Legacy
States was rapidly expanding its nuclear energy and weapons program and its ... the Navajo reservation in search of uranium. Where they found it ... reparations or reinvestments in the community to make up for the pollution and
Life with Pollution vs. Life in Poverty: A No-Win Dilemma
. Mongolia is known for its natural beauty, sprawling steppes, and untouched ... produce less pollution, but for many families, the price tag was unbearably ... odds: the collective majority fighting for basic human rights, and the
At CEEPR Workshop, Taxing Carbon is the Name of the Game
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research hosted its 2019 ... subsidy on EV’s within a cap-and-trade system will reduce demand for ... together industry leaders, academics, and policy makers for an off
Improving the Energy Efficiency of Your Quarantine
’t involve a screen!Go for a walk and get outside! Throw on your favorite face ... demonstrating support for sustainability and environmental protections. Today ... home and make an effort to lower our energy impact for the long haul
How Can We Use Carbon Dioxide to Feed Rechargeable Batteries?
we could capture CO2 and use it to charge the batteries? Capturing CO2 and converting it into electricity, rather than into fuels to burn again ... -oxygen, lithium-oxygen, and nickel-hydrogen, many studies are being done on CO2
It’s Cities Day at COP26. Here’s What Your City Can Do.
their new and updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs). But for ... for plucky mayors and their highly activated constituents. But there are ... useful example. It’s the poorest large city in the U.S. and suppressed by a
Reimagining Pennsylvania’s Coal Communities
’s natural gas development has lowered energy costs for consumers and created new economic development opportunities, it has been devastating for the people, businesses, and towns still dependent on coal mining
What’s a “Fair Share” of Emissions Reductions Under the Paris Climate Process?
, emissions, and things like that. Even if it's cheaper for the globe to shut ... mandatorily is best for individual countries when it comes to climate and job ... so that in the end, it's the least cost solution for the globe and also
Expert Voices: Urban Policy & Presidential Elections
question every day on the campaign trail. The Institute for Urban Research turned to its thought leaders and asked the same question. Among them was ... infrastructure to education access, it is clear that cities face enormous and
A New Era of Policy in Solar Geoengineering
areas of SG, with some coalitions and groups calling for bans on such ... collaboration in an international context for both research and its governance ... —both domestically and globally, and press coverage is mounting. The question of how