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The CO2 Transportation Challenge
potential for atmospheric carbon to be captured and stored across the U.S., and highlights the fact that the best places for carbon to be captured, and stored, are frequently not the same. On the podcast, two report
Why Is It So Hard to Build the Electric Grid of the Future?
cooling water, and coal piles freeze. So we're never going to have a hundred ... growing number of states and the federal government have set 100% clean ... for clean energy is already evident in fact that wind and solar power
Stalled: Make Big Trucks More Fuel Efficient
air brake and air-conditioning compressors, power steering, cooling fan ... of energy, users of our highways, and producers of pollution—including greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants. Sadly, tractor-trailers aren
Beyond Labor: The Expanding Scope of the Just Energy Transition
and has traditionally referred to the idea that workers in the fossil ... transition entails is viewed as overly narrow and failing to address broad ... perpetuate a range of social, environmental, and economic inequalities. This
Climate Negotiator Contemplates Future of Paris Agreement Without the U.S.
agreement. And so there's a three-year cooling off period. The Trump ... from the UN and others that highlight both the dangers of a warming climate, and the inadequacy of current efforts to keep warming to a minimum
How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy
Interest groups play a central role in American politics, and nowhere ... and environmental politics. Leah Stokes, assistant professor of ... energy and in defining policies to address the environmental and climate
For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await
and Labor Days, and why winter jackets are black. White reflects, cools ... geoengineering, which is process to artificially cool the Earth by reflecting ... inevitability, and also presents a compelling argument for why much more research
How Big Is LNG Opportunity for U.S. Natural Gas Industry?
in the U.S., which really are number one, heating and cooling, which is ... .S. electricity generation, and is also the most important fuel for home heating. And the U.S. is on track to become the world’s number one exporter of
How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid
smart thermostat that looks cool on their wall and can be controlled from ... 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
The Key to Electric Grid Reliability: Modernizing Governance
Prepared for the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy ... the rise and the system’s reliability more frequently tested than ever before in the face of more frequent storms, heat waves, hurricanes, and the