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Vivek Nair
Undergraduate Seminar Fellow 2025 Vivek Nair is a fourth-year student in the VIPER program pursuing degrees in materials science & engineering and chemistry. He is interested in utilizing these fields to develop
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Replacement Could Be Vulnerable In Courts
and nitrogen oxides. ACE would boost investment in improvements of ... of President Trump’s broader effort to undo the climate and ... the Clean Power Plan and also to ambitious CAFE automotive fuel economy
The Carbon Tax: A Bargain for Conservatives
, and the White House and an opportunity to craft a broad policy agenda. Having failed to pass a repeal and replacement of Obamacare, consensus now ... ’s priorities. President Trump has alluded to the need to cut taxes and encourage
Energy Week: Student Poster Session
Policy Eligibility:Penn undergraduate, graduate, and post ... and Technology, and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. All students and post-docs who have research related to energy are encouraged to
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
Cities Get Failing Grades for Air Quality
), nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide are all measured to calculate the Air ... from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Comparatively, a ... scores for number of high ozone days, year-round particle pollution, and
The Kids Are Alright
protest at Philadelphia’s City Hall. All across the country and across the world, students walked out of the classroom and into the streets to show ... involved students from a variety of ages, teachers, and some concerned adults
Carbon Dioxide Hits Record High
Observatory, first hit 400 parts per million in 2013 and have since been ... our current pace we will hit 450 parts per million in about 16 years and ... and ecosystem could be catastrophic. But there is still reason to be
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