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Water’s Rising Energy Intensity May Alter Landscapes in San Diego
Though California’s historic drought—and governor-mandated 25% water ... remain to assure water security for the state’s households and water ... mountains after a dry January and February raised new concerns for Californian
Exploring a Tool to Curb Climate Change: Direct Air Capture
need to do both: curb our current emissions and create negative emissions. But what are negative emissions and how do we get them? Negative emissions remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it on land, underground, or
Climate Goes Mainstream
series, and even the conservative Wall Street Journal allowed the four ... and the fact that climate change is just getting too hard to deny. Last ... link between melting arctic sea ice and the tendency for frigid artic air
Solar Energy: Not Just for Philadelphia’s Elite
credited to a number of factors and there is an effort across Philadelphia to ... spreading clean energy and increasing energy efficiency. In 2016, PEA launched ... cleaner Philadelphia, drive down energy costs, and create 10,000 jobs in
DOE’s Lifeline to Transmission Siting for Renewables
cheap wind energy to the southeast U.S. The $2.5 billion Plains and ... Oklahoma and Texas, to areas of higher demand in Arkansas and Tennessee ... deployment and integration of renewable energy onto the electrical grid. Some
EV Market Hits Its Tipping Point
energize a transportation revolution include Nissan’s Leaf and BMW’s i3. In ... style and a price to match, but also came up short on endurance. Yet ... . If the high stakes and recent, almost universal rush by manufacturers to
The Case for Nature-Based Solutions
Richter, Penn Professor of German and Dutch Studies
The Carbon Shock: Investor Response to the British Columbia Carbon Tax
the context of financial and economic risk. After the former Bank of ... a variety of fields not only limited to finance and economics have ... affect economic variables, and additionally, investor behavior
Can Local Participation Help Solve the Oil Curse?
handful of multinational “supermajors” and state-run firms. Local private firms typically lack the know-how, financing, and technology to conduct the capital-intensive work of drilling and pumping oil. But this
Tax Substitution as Climate Policy for Hard-to-Decarbonize Sectors
economic activity and, consequently, faces strong resistance from current ... sector accounts for 2.5% of CO2 emissions and 3.5% of the effects leading ... and fast expansion of service networks. Still, alternative fuel