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Helping Coal
regulations. Helping “coal country,” especially helping the coal miners and ... revenue outlooks for all baseload supplies, notably coal and nuclear plants. Given these negative pressures for coal, changing the CPP and even federal
The Potential of a National Clean Electricity Standard
and prolific energy tweeter Leah Stokes stopped by the Kleinman Center ... month by Evergreen Action and Data for Progress. The report deals with a ... ). Stokes and her co-authors make the case that this popular standard is
Aviation’s Path to Decarbonization
through most of the perspectives offered: Electrify everything possible and ... industries, yet aviation stands out as one that is ripe for innovation and ... in both turboprop and turbofan designs for the 50-200 seat market with
Why Did the Clean Development Mechanism Produce Low-Quality Carbon Offsets?
implementation of carbon offsets under the 2015 Paris Agreement and the 1997 Kyoto ... the CDM didn’t work and why? The main problem is that many CDM ... and sometimes even qualitative narratives. That’s not to say that we
Learning From Uruguay’s Energy Transition
2008 when particle physicist and 2023 Carnot Prize recipient Ramón Méndez Galain developed a detailed and ambitious plan to shift to wind energy ... national security benefits of being less reliant on imports and fossil fuels
For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await
inevitability, and also presents a compelling argument for why much more research ... fundamentally different from other strategies that address climate change, and why ... , is likely to stoke fierce policy debate and, quite possibly
Carbon Tax Border Adjustments: Good Politics, Bad for Consumers?
that will be imposed on imports of carbon-intensive goods such as steel and ... -sum game if not carefully designed, and where there are winners, there are ... subject to a carbon price, and reduce the temptation for industries to
Insurers Struggle to Address Climate Risk
California in 2017 and 2018, the state’s worst two years for fire on record, cost insurers $24 billion in claims and erased a quarter century of ... ,000 renewals and would continue to do so today but for California’s one
Madrid Climate Conference Failed, but Silver Lining Exists
that ended last Sunday has been widely panned as a failure, and it’s true ... . Yet, it’s worth taking a closer look at what negotiators did, and didn ... warming in fact stands. First and foremost participants, and most
Visiting Scholar Offers New Perspective on U.S. Thirst for Foreign Oil
.S. gasoline pumps, and declining domestic oil production, laid out what would ... become vital to America’s security and economy. Within the White House, it ... and Armageddon,” which he discussed at the Perry World House in March