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Why Energy Efficiency May Not Decrease Energy Consumption
Growing empirical evidence that energy efficient technologies may drive greater energy consumption, not less, demands a…
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Testimony: The Challenge of China’s Green Technology Policy
Breakthrough Institute Project Director Devon Swezey testified today before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review…
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Clean Energy COMPETES: Strengthening Clean Energy Competitiveness through the America COMPETES Reauthorization
Originally at the New RepublicHaving passed the U.S. House of Representatives on May 28th, the America COMPETES…
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Atkinson: Investment in Innovation and Manufacturing Critical to US Clean Energy Competitiveness
Testifying before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure, ITIF President and…
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Clearing the Clean Energy Innovation Threshold
The latest from the Brookings Institution's Mark Muro is a perfectly succinct summary of how one should judge the…
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Senate Climate Bill Trio Scrapping Oil and Gasoline Fee?
[Update at end of post - 4/22/10 at 5:20 PST]According to several reports, the trio of senators leading the effort to…
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“Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy” Report Overview
"Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy," a policy memo co-authored by the…
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Correcting the Record on Waxman-Markey
John Harwood incorrectly stated that House-passed Waxman-Markey "would reduce carbon emissions by 17 percent from 2005…
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Why Joe Romm Won’t Debate Roger Pielke Jr.
UPDATE 3/3/10: Keith Kloor has weighed in with "Fisking Romm" at Collide-a-Scape, as has Ron Bailey at Reason with…
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Cantwell-Collins Calls the Question on Offsets
SummaryUntil just recently, carbon offsets appealed to environmentalists, polluting firms, farmers, timber interests,…
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Think Tank? Or In the Tank?
World Resources Institute conducts ostensibly independent and objective analyses of environmental legislation for…
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What Comes After Cap and Trade?
Republican Scott Brown's upset victory over Democratic incumbent Martha Coakley for the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat…
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The End of Magical Climate Thinking
Originally published at Foreign PolicyThere was good reason to be hopeful in January of 2009 that the election of…
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Daily Breakthrough: Avatar, Eco-Paranoia, and Technology
UPDATE: Alternet and Buffalo Beast have both corrected their posts about Roger Pielke Jr. and Breakthrough and…
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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 2: Structural Advantages
In Part 1 of our analysis of the new Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, we demonstrated how the bill fails to make the…
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