Decarbonization
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 13: EPA Analysis Projects Waxman-Markey Would Not Require Emissions Reductions
[Updated 6/18/09 with graphics that more clearly reflect banking of offsets under EPA's projected offsets scenario.]The…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 12: CBO Projects Waxman-Markey Would Cut Cumulative Emissions by Just 2%
[Updated with correction, 6/18/09: Thanks to John Larson at WRI for alerting us to an error in our data. Our data is…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 11: New UCS Analysis Finds Waxman-Markey RES Won’t Increase Clean Energy
According to a new, as-yet-unpublished analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the combined efficiency…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 10: Smart Provisions Could Spur Clean Technology - If They Are Funded
As Breakthrough's analysis of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) has revealed, the climate…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 9: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Confirms Breakthrough’s Analysis
With most DC-based environmental organizations at least grudgingly supporting the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 8: Waxman-Markey’s Non-Binding Emissions "Cap"
Since we released our initial analysis of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), other…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened
Advocates of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, or "ACES" for short) argue that the…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 6: Strategic Reserve May Allow "Cap" to Rise by 10 Percent
Every climate bill, in the U.S. and abroad, contains provisions limiting how high carbon prices established by the…
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Joe Romm Tries to Shut Down Climate Bill Debate by Attacking Breakthrough Institute
Breakthrough Institute spent the past week analyzing the Waxman-Markey climate bill. We released several objective and…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 5: Foreign Offsets Receive 2.5 Times More Money than U.S. Clean Energy
If all foreign offset provisions in the Waxman-Markey climate bill are used, the cap and trade regime would spend…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 4: Emissions Cap May Let U.S. Emissions Continue to Rise Through 2030
[Updated 6/18/09 to more clearly explain and depict the potential banking of offsets.]At the heart of the nearly…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 3: Key offset limit eliminated, increasing domestic offset use, lowering allowance prices
The original discussion draft of Waxman-Markey included a key provision that would have required domestic and…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 2: Clean Energy R&D Investment May Be 30 Times Smaller than President Obama's Budget
[Updated 5/22/09: the ACES bill now includes a $10/ton price floor for auctioned pollution permits. The analysis below…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 1: Waxman-Markey Gives Nearly 5 Times More to Polluters than Clean Energy
The landmark Waxman-Markey 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act was introduced in the House this afternoon (May…
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Cap and Trade Worked for Acid Rain, Why Not for Climate Change?
One of the most often-repeated assumptions in the climate policy debate is that cap and trade, the preferred mechanism…
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The Green Bubble, Why Environmentalism Keeps Imploding
In this week's New Republic, Ted and Michael argue that the green bubble has popped -- and that's a good thing.…
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How Fast Can a Big Economy Decarbonize?
Cross posted from Prometheus: The Science Policy Blog Remarkably, with all of the talk of targets and timetables for…
