A Debate Without Trump Made It Easier to Look Ahead
New York and New Jersey have opened a new front in their eternal war
"The New York plan, which could begin next May, would charge drivers who cross below 60th Street in Manhattan, perhaps as much as $23 a trip. The objective is to reduce traffic and air pollution in the city while delivering $1bn a year to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to upgrade the city’s subways and buses. A win-win-win, it would seem."
Consumers Should Decide What Car is Best for Them
Empowering consumers and removing barriers to innovation will better serve the economy and the environment.
Data-Driven Agriculture: Why Data Collection Can Improve Conservation Programs
Research and analysis of project data will help to implement better programs, such as outcomes-based conservation, and help conservationists implement more effective projects.
America needs clean electricity. These states show how to do it.
"Today, the United States is running a natural experiment in electricity generation, with a patchwork of policies and power grids. To eliminate electricity’s greenhouse gas emissions, it makes sense to ask: What can we learn from the states that make cleanest power?"
It’s Time to Modernize America’s Nuclear Power Policy
"The United States can continue to be a leader in nuclear power, but only if the government modernizes its regulations to allow innovators the freedom to innovate. Allowing the inefficiencies and delays that ensnared the Vogtle project to continue will not only impede reductions in carbon emissions but also harm national energy security and reliability for businesses and consumers."
Take It From Miss America: Young Americans Should Champion Nuclear Energy
"We each have a voice, and it's our responsibility to use our voices to enact meaningful change. Gen Z could be the generation that champions nuclear energy and fights back against climate change. In fact, we have to. It's time to seize this valuable opportunity to hold politicians accountable and take action to create reliable and zero-carbon energy."
Data Confirms: Building a Cleaner Grid Is Going to Be Harder Than Expected
"A more rational, less political approach would acknowledge the need to keep natural gas plants online for longer, while working to reduce opposition and state and local level barriers to new energy investments."
Fossil Fuels Can Coexist With Climate Goals
Renewables, batteries, and nuclear power will play an increasingly important role in the world’s energy mix, and there are ways policymakers can increase clean energy capacity by reforming the permitting process and unleashing the private sector to invest in domestic supply chains for uranium and critical minerals. But assuming fossil fuels will disappear without significant cost to human welfare is devoid of reality.
The Wisdom of Not Declaring a Climate Emergency
A climate emergency would be counterproductive to meaningful climate progress.