Energy and Climate
Make clean energy cheap.
Access to affordable and reliable energy is absolutely essential for human development, but energy production takes a heavy toll on the environment. With demand for energy expected to grow for decades to come as developing nations emerge from poverty, substantial innovation into clean energy technologies will be necessary to achieve our ambitious goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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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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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 1: Climate Goals
A new climate bill, introduced Friday by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), would invest only a…
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The End of "Developing Countries"
In 1992, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed that only developed…
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New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Promising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry…
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