Articles about EPA
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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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Collection: Breakthrough Institute Analysis of Congressional Climate Bills
The Breakthrough Institute team works to publish quantitative analysis of Congressional climate and clean energy…
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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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Energy and Climate
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Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill’s Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
The latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of…
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Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
Late Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the…
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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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Joe Romm’s Strategy to Lose the Clean Energy Race
Originally featured at the Huffington PostCross-posted at Grist.org On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly…
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Joe Romm Ignores Facts in Attacking Breakthrough Institute Op-Ed
On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly attacked the Breakthrough Institute for publishing an op-ed in the San…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 19: ACES Could Align Economic Interests to Weaken Climate Legislation
This analysis was also covered in an op-ed at AlterNet. New analysis by the Breakthrough Institute concludes that the…
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Analysis of Waxman-Markey ACES Climate Bill: Full Breakthrough Institute Collection
Download this summary as a pdf hereFor Breakthrough Institute's full collection of analysis of Congressional climate…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 18: Understanding EPA’s Analysis of the ACES Renewable Electricity Standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biomass will generate…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 16: EPA Projects Fewer Renewables Under Waxman Markey than Business As Usual
The Waxman-Markey climate bill (AKA the American Clean Energy and Security Act) would reduce the amount of renewable…
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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 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 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…
