Climate Policy

He directs the domestic analysis program, including coordination and oversight of analyses, reports and workshops that focus on the climate policy initiatives of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. ...
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He also researches economic competitiveness issues tied to clean energy policy at both the state and federal levels, including how climate policy can better position US firms to compete in emerging global clean energy markets. Mr. Wurzelmann holds a BA ...
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Because low-income households devote greater shares of their income to energy and transportation costs than do higher-income households, virtually any climate policy will place relatively greater burdens on low-income households. ...
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But underneath the surface, a seismic shift has taken place, altering Canada's climate change policy directions. For the first time in 23 years, the Conservative will run a majority government. Harper had been running a minority government over the ...
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From a big picture perspective, this example illustrates the difficulty of advancing energy and climate policy, even in California, "America's laboratory." These and other distressing stalls and defeats show plainly that standard operating procedure in ...
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More » Jesse Jenkins is the director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute. More » Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about energy and the environment. More » Geoffrey Styles is Managing Director of ...
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The confrontation over climate policy that was teed up by the results of last November's mid-term election culminated with the House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly yesterday to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to ...
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An Emerging De Facto International Climate Policy Architecture? Whereas some two-way links between cap-and-trade systems may thus take more time to establish, in the near-term one-way links between cap-and-trade and credit systems likely will be more ...
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In climate policy debates, it's a matter of faith among some in the environmental and economics communities that “price is king.” No less an authority than Alan Blinder has referred to carbon prices as a “miracle cure,” key to inducing massive ...
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