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• API’s “Environmental Partnership:” Years Behind the Curve on Methane from the Oil and Gas Industry

  This week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) launched its “Environmental Partnership” with 26 oil and gas companies to target reductions of methane pollution from three different sources.

  Policy December 6, 2017

• New Report: Nuclear Export Control Reforms will Enhance Availability of Nuclear Energy for Climate Pollution Emission Reduction

  U.S. innovators have developed and continue to pursue key technologies that could increase the flexibility of nuclear power while lowering its cost and environmental impacts. 

  Policy, Technology December 4, 2017

• Administrator Pruitt Appoints Himself Judge, Jury and Executioner of the Clean Power Plan

  The Trump EPA’s proposed complete repeal of the Clean Power Plan represents a 180-degree turn from the position of the Obama Administration.

  Policy October 13, 2017

• 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