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• Electricity Decarbonization – How’s That Working Out?

  Most analyses of the requirements to stabilize the planet at warming of no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels envision a zero-carbon-emitting electric grid at or before 2050.

  Electricity, Policy September 22, 2017

• Taking Carbon Capture to the Next Level

  Imagine a world where there is broad bi-partisan support in Congress for legislation that would drive the development and deployment of a technology that’s crucial for combating global warming and, at the same time, creating a near-zero-carbon path forward for fossil fuels.

  Industry, Policy July 11, 2017

• Updating the Licensing Pathway to Enable Nuclear Innovation

  Recent headlines have brought the issue of global warming back into sharp focus. Scientists are predicting that melting ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could raise sea levels by as much as six feet by the end of this century. That’s enough to threaten coastal cities around the world. The…

  Policy June 6, 2017

• Canada Takes a Big Step Forward on Cutting Methane Pollution

  On May 25, Catherine McKenna, the Minister for Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced the next phase of Canada’s efforts to address the needless waste of natural gas by cutting methane pollution from the country’s oil and gas sector.

  Policy May 25, 2017

• Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt

  Tomorrow the Earth Day March for Science will happen on the National Mall in DC, and over 500 satellite marches will take place in other locations around the world.  Like most of those marching, we never thought we would need to make the case for integrity in environmental science. It…

  Climate, Policy April 21, 2017

• Not So Fast, Mr. Trump

  Donald Trump, accompanied by Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke, today signed a comprehensive and sweeping Executive Order purporting to roll back multiple final rules and Executive actions of his predecessor aimed at dealing with the climate and other environmental impacts of developing US coal and natural gas and oil. But…

  Policy March 28, 2017

• A Good Start for Massachusetts on Clean Energy, but Lots More to Do

  Massachusetts steps up to the climate challenge, embracing a technology neutral approach to its clean energy standard – but the Commonwealth can go further, and must to meet global warming solutions act requirements. Given rapidly changing federal policy on combating climate change, it is all the more important that states…

  Policy, Technology March 7, 2017

• Don’t Let the Senate Waste the BLM Methane Rule!

  On February 3, the House of Representatives passed a resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to kill the Methane Waste Rule — a recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) effort to restrict the waste of natural gas from oil and gas development on federal and tribal lands.  A companion…

  Policy February 6, 2017