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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Rising Prospects for a U.S. Carbon Border Fee
for significant leadership from Washington on climate and clean energy ... passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and, most pointedly, the ... clean energy and improve the nation’s climate resilience. Recently
Rare Earth Elements Pose Environmental, Economic Risks for Clean Energy
of goods such as cell phones and computer hard drives. They’re also a critical element in wind turbines and electric vehicle motors. Today ... Chinese-American diplomatic tensions and rising demand for clean energy
Planning for Net Zero in an Imperfect World
local and global levels, and questions of technological scalability. The ... , visiting scholar at the Kleinman Center and professor of Future Energy ... and the role negative emissions could play in achieving net-zero goals
June Developments Point to Inevitability of National Carbon Price
death and taxes, said Ben Franklin, and the latter must now include a tax ... outside of the liberal enclaves of the Northeast and California, both of which have cap and trade programs. Yet carbon-tax wielding barbarians
UN Pushes Decarbonization Plans as COVID Recovery Tool
reduction goals and pledge to deeper cuts in the service of limiting global ... coronavirus and providing economic stimulus. Threat turned to reality in April ... uncertainty and pandemic, work on the Paris process has continued, most recently
The COVID Carbon Crunch
Since global stay-at-home orders and government enforced business ... devastating and disruptive than the coronavirus. If IEA’s projections are ... the Unites States was too focused on the national debt and GDP and not
Will China’s EV Leadership Bring Global Automotive Dominance?
automakers built 400,000 electric cars, over half the global total and twice as ... Western, Japanese and Korean automakers, particularly in complex systems ... John Paul MacDuffie, Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility
EVs Mean Growth for These Businesses
increase the urgency of calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions—and the ... Generators and Utilities In general, electric generation companies ... ” infrastructure investments to accommodate medium and heavy duty vehicles (fleets of
What the Heck is ‘Enhanced Price Formation’ in PJM?
it would undermine competitive markets and seeks to solve a problem not ... price formation reforms earlier this year. And, although DOE provided no ... number one recommendation from it's grid reliability report, and various
Is a Proposed Kentucky Solar Farm on Mine Lands a Model for PA?
Renewable Energy and former state Auditor Adam Edelen, announced a feasibility ... and ten times the size of the next biggest solar facility. Berkeley ... -out land and create local jobs. Could this project be a model for