Analysis
Twilight of Environmental Idols
The problem with environmentalism is not simply that it isn't up to the task of building a low-carbon future but that it is actively obstructing that future.
· Ted Nordhaus
Nature Better nature through technology.
Conservation, land use, wildfire and climate, and the politics and economics of development, assembled into one category: the case that intensifying human activity on less land is how wild nature gets room to recover.
Issues
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Wildfires
Latest: ‘Natural Disaster Insurance for All’ Is Not the Path to Wildfire Resilience
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Climate Change
Latest: The Original Environmental Economist: RIP Uncle Bill
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Decoupling
Latest: Breakthrough Institute Applauds USDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Disease-Resistant American Chestnut Tree
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Economic Development
Latest: It's Time for the World Bank to Scrap Its Climate Finance Targets
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Climate Politics
Latest: The Original Environmental Economist: RIP Uncle Bill
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Environmentalism
Latest: The Original Environmental Economist: RIP Uncle Bill
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Conservation
Latest: Breakthrough Institute Applauds USDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Disease-Resistant American Chestnut Tree
Data and tools
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Data
Navigating NEPA
387 appellate NEPA cases and 1,800 opinions, filterable by state, project type and plaintiff, with the full dataset downloadable.
Nature work
Research, analysis and everything on the record across wildfires, climate change, decoupling and more.
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Analysis
To Decarbonize Food Production, Washington Must Invest
If DC can fund General Motors, it can also fund alternative meat and other environmental breakthroughs.
· Alex Smith, Emily Bass
Report
Agricultural Research and Development: How to Grow Enough Food for Everyone With the Least Carbon Emissions
New Report "Growing Green" analyzes the environmental benefits of public research and development
· Alex Smith, Dan Blaustein-Rejto
Analysis
What is a Nuclear Reactor with Thermal Energy Storage?
And why a utility, or its customers, would like one.
· Matthew L. Wald
Analysis
The Faulty Diablo Canyon Study that Started it All
How Friends of the Earth and a Prominent Renewable Energy Lobbyist Hoodwinked California Policy-Makers.
· Jonah Messinger, Seaver Wang, Adam Stein
Analysis
Plant Biotech, the Underrated and Underfunded Environmental Tool
To improve environmental outcomes in agriculture, the 2023 Farm Bill needs to prioritize plant breeding and biotech research.
· Emma Kovak
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Who leads this work
Ted Nordhaus
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Vijaya Ramachandran
Director, Energy and Development Email
Latest: It's Time for the World Bank to Scrap Its Climate Finance Targets
