Climate Policy

Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images If Congress had the wherewithal to establish a robust energy and climate change policy, there might have been a transformative bit of construction underway right now, next to the towering Mountaineer coal power plant, ...
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I was fortunate enough to have the chance to lead a symposium on the future of climate policy back in April for the progressive periodical Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. The transcript has just been published. I had great panelists: Joe Aldy, ...
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But this is an environmental blog—what does the Canadian election mean for environmental and climate policy? As it turns out, nothing very good. I'll explain why in a second, but first of all, there's something you need to know about Canada. ...
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Environmentalism has changed—today young city dwellers whose only experience with nature comes in an urban park will often support progressive climate policy and endangered species, while conservatives who hunt and fish in those great outdoors ...
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Climate policy is largely beyond the White House's control now—other than defending the EPA's regulatory powers—but that's not the only area where Obama ...
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... focusing on different elements of policy. That's more effective, and it prevents climate action as a whole from being bogged down if one stream clogs. ...
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Forests Are the Low-Hanging Fruit of Climate Policy: The hallmark of post-Copenhagen realism is the recognition that there will be no single grand-bargain ...
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... videos from sponsors like BMW and the Aga Khan Development Network, less to substantiative discussions about the real future of climate policy. ...
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Last week I wrote about a paper on energy and climate policy that came from scholars at the leftish Brookings Institution, the conservative American ...
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There is an iron law of climate policy that says that while people will accept some price for environmental objectives, that willingness only goes so far. ...
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