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India’s Electrification Push Raises Environmental Stakes
Depression-era New Deal. The policy aimed to create jobs in the near term and ... economic development in the nation’s rural and agricultural regions ... drought and crop failure during the Dust Bowl. India’s challenges look
Will LNG Exports be Pushed to New Heights Under Trump’s Second Term?
specifically poised for a similar expansion in natural gas production and ... gas production, LNG ports must be developed. Given the high-cost and ... a stable and predictable project development environment are necessary
As Climate Concerns Rise, What Role Will Natural Gas Play?
proven themselves to be a reliable backup for intermittent wind and solar power, and gas is viewed as an enabler of an increasingly renewables ... decades. Peter Fraser, head of the Gas, Coal and Power Markets Division
California’s Deepwater Wind Challenge
to jump-start its offshore wind industry and help the state reach its ... scarcely been applied anywhere in the world, and it presents infrastructure and economic hurdles that could complicate the state’s offshore wind
Without the U.S., Does Paris Climate Deal Collapse?
, and his promise to weaken automotive fuel economy standards. Both are ... the administration, and within the energy industry, have urged the ... the effort to combat climate change and the fate of a global
Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon
should be placed on carbon today to limit carbon dioxide emissions, and ... calculated, and looks at the factors that economists take into account in ... carbon is so contentious, and why the cost estimates accepted by the Trump
Taxing the Tar Sands
, putting Canada among the top five oil producers in the world [1]. Oil and ... province and for the Canadian economy. At the same time, this sector has been ... the largest carbon emitter in Canada and almost 50% of Albertan carbon
Can the Airline Industry Survive Climate Change?
Asia and mature markets like the U.S. continue to expand. The air ... to other modes of transport. In Sweden, the birthplace of flygskam and of climate activist and airline-avoider Greta Thunberg, air ridership
How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid
power plants have retired and grid operators have struggled to bring new ... ’s challenges may already be in place, if grid operators and regulators can figure ... small, distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar and demand
New U.S. Sanctions for Nord Stream 2? What’s At Stake
proposal to clarify and expand U.S. sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline ... Cruz (R) and Jeanne Shaheen (D) the bill has a rare bipartisan support ... set of U.S. sanctions that targeted pipeline-laying vessels. And earlier