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The Bidenomics of place-based climate policy. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a big climate deal. At the heart of this deal are billions of dollars in clean energy tax … Continue Reading Can Targeted Tax Credits Bring Clean Energy to Coal Country?
A new paper suggests this may not be economical in many cases – yet. I realize that on this blog we often pour cold water on what at first glance … Continue Reading Peakers Out, Batteries In?
The year’s most popular blog posts addressed rooftop solar policy and the path to electrifying homes and transportation. The widespread adoption of solar energy by California households led the state’s … Continue Reading Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022
Co-authored with Mark R. Jacobsen, James M. Sallee, and Arthur A. van Benthem – Exhaust standards drove 99% declines in vehicle emissions, but still need scrap incentives for old vehicles. … Continue Reading Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective, Efficient, and Equitable?
Strategic shutdowns of pollution monitors kill people. Instead of writing an excessively angry piece about the abysmal outcome of the latest global climate negotiations, I calmed myself down chemically by … Continue Reading Trashing My Scale Won’t Make Me Less Fat
As new subsidies spur companies to invest in carbon capture and storage, policies need to address associated harms. The path to enacting the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) went through Senator … Continue Reading Carbon Capture’s Role in a Greenhouse Gas-Free Electricity Grid
Historical baseline allocations can increase acceptance of emergency policies, or lock in unfair resource allocations. The price of a good may rise because inputs to making it become more expensive, … Continue Reading A Right to Keep Consuming?
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