Michael Shellenberger
President and Founder, Environmental Progress
Michael Shellenberger co-founded the Breakthrough Institute with Ted Nordhaus in 2003. He left the Breakthrough Institute in 2015 and founded Environmental Progress. His bio and recent writings can be found at www.environmentalprogress.org
By Michael Shellenberger:
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Energy and Climate
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 20: Over-Allocation of Pollution Permits Would Result in No Emissions Reductions
The large decline in U.S. emissions in 2008 and 2009 due to the economic recession ensures that if the House-passed…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 15: EPA Projects Coal Will Expand Under Waxman-Markey
Electricity generation from coal will grow if Waxman-Markey climate legislation becomes law, according to a Los Angeles…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 14: Waxman-Markey Puts Ratepayers at Risk
According to a new analysis [pdf] by Public Citizen, the Waxman-Markey (W-M) climate legislation would inadequately…
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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According to a new, as-yet-unpublished analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the combined efficiency…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 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 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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An Open Letter to Joseph Romm
Joe,Your strategy, as usual, is to shoot the messenger rather than confront the facts. This is what you did when you…
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Scrap Kyoto
Kyoto is dead - and that's a good thing. In its place, we need massive global investment in new clean energy…
