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Have US Emissions Peaked?
America's newfound abundance of natural gas, unlocked by decades of public and private investment in new shale gas drilling technology, is helping drive US CO2 missions down even as the economy recovers, according to new data from the US Energy...
Feed-in Tariffs Levy Larger Price Incentive for Clean Energy than European Emissions Trading Scheme
Carbon-pricing advocates regularly point to European nations for examples of appropriate and effective clean energy deployment policies. Surging growth rates for solar and wind, coupled with regional declines in carbon emissions, are cited as clear...
Bill Gates: Make Energy Cheap, Clean
What does energy have to do with ending poverty? Bill Gates -- whose philanthropic largesse has made him one of the most prominent advocates for the world's poor -- should know.At the recent Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics forum, Gates made a pitch...
UK Greens Divided on Nuclear Power
Prominent environmentalists in the United Kingdom are at loggerheads over whether Britain should pursue new nuclear power plants, in a clash that has revealed sharply divergent approaches to energy and climate change. Five leading environmentalists...
How Fukushima Led to a Radiation Panic
One year after Fukushima, independent scientists working for the UN say bluntly that irrational fears of radiation poisoning will cause far more harm than the radiation itself. Not a single individual from the Japanese public received a dangerous...
President Obama Follows Through on Energy Innovation in 2013 Budget Request
President Obama backed up his call to “double-down” on clean energy during the State of the Union address by proposing to boost key energy innovation investments in his FY2013 federal budget request. Compared to the FY2012 Omnibus Appropriations...
New Data: Nuclear Down, Carbon Intensity Up in Japan
Japan's nuclear power fleet has sat idle since a powerful earthquake struck the nation in March 2011, driving a sharp increase in fossil fuel imports and a spike in the nation's carbon intensity, new data shows. Together, these changes have battered...
Terry Engelder on the Federal Role in the Shale Gas Revolution
As a part of the Breakthrough Institute's in-depth investigation of shale gas extraction and the role of the federal government in the development of many of the key enabling technologies, we interviewed Terry Engelder, professor at the University...
CNN: Government to Thank for Technologies We Can't Live Without
With the backdrop of solar company Solyndra's bankruptcy, the media has been running an endless stream of stories and op-eds seeking to discredit government investment in technology. CCNMoney, in an encouraging contrast, today published a blog post...
Energy Innovation 2011 Coming To DC
At Energy Innovation 2010, clean energy advocates, policy experts, and public officials moved the clean energy policy debate in a new direction: an innovation strategy is required to develop the transformative technologies we need to address climate...
When Politicians Put Experts Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Cross-posted from Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog I have been following closely, but not writing much on, the debate in Australia over Julia Gillard's proposed carbon tax. How it plays out will be fascinating to watch and will provide as much a lesson...
New Report Breaks Down the Clean Economy
This morning the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program released a comprehensive new report, "Sizing the Clean Economy," which takes a detailed look at the United States' ongoing transformation toward a low-carbon future. The report, co...
