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Rebuilding America’s National Government
The presence of a competent national government capable of investment in the future will enable environmentally sustainable economic growth.
The presence of a competent national government capable of investment in the future will enable environmentally sustainable economic growth.
It can help us weigh the costs and benefits of climate regulations, but nailing down an exact number is difficult.
Following four years of Trump’s climate denial, the Biden administration has gone all in and is starting to articulate a comprehensive climate policy.
On March 18, the New York Public Service Commission green-lighted a critical component of the state’s first offshore wind farm.
Instead of taxing fossil fuels we should subsidize and invest in renewable energy.
While last week was wrenching, the electoral results in Georgia, the courage of many Republican elected officials, and the silencing of Trump’s Twitter account give us reason to hope that better days lie ahead.
Biden’s climate team could use normal executive power to emphasize renewable energy in the Department of Defense, and graduate students at Columbia University have provided a blueprint to jumpstart that process.
The IPCC has identified nuclear power as key to controlling climate change. Can new reactors bring about a nuclear revival?
Electric vehicles and the infrastructure needed to support them are critical elements of a decarbonization strategy.
A pragmatic, operational focus on outcomes is a better approach than an effort to achieve symbolic victories that appeal to ideologically oriented partisans.