Many climate hawks may see the Supreme Court’s ruling as a setback for climate progress. Instead, it should be an opportunity for policymakers to step up, double down on innovation, and empower the private sector to deliver the energy and climate solutions Americans and the rest of the world need.
While the President has a vital role to play in international trade relations, this trip to Saudi Arabia should not be viewed as the solution to our policies domestically.
Preventing economic prosperity not only produces harmful negative externalities: it is also an extremely costly way to eliminate emissions.
"Germany's plight is disturbing testimony of where you can end up if you commit yourself to a vision of a 'green' future that has no place in it for the most reliable source of clean-ish electricity. By contrast, neighboring France plans to build as many as 14 new nuclear reactors because of, not despite, its environmental goals."
"This is a framework for new American energy leadership – for our nation and for America’s friends abroad – supporting investment and creating new resource access while avoiding unnecessarily restricted energy growth due to government policies and regulation. It’s time to lead."
In a recently released policy brief, authors Eric Edwards and Sara Sutherland of the Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) outline how inefficient regulations and permitting processes exacerbate the risk of wildfires.
Using the DPA is a band-aid fix to a deeper problem. For durable solutions, policymakers must look to regulatory and legislative changes.
C3 Action will be committed to making sure there is sustained momentum for solutions.
"Facilitating a strong, steady transformation of our energy system is both a generation-defining challenge and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We need every solution in our toolkit and every ally in our corner — and that includes the oil and gas industry."
Germany' energy mistakes should serve as a stark warning for all those advocating for Green New Deals and for those arguing that only government can solve climate change.
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