Washington Post Live
Conversation with Timothy Puko
Washington
Yahoo! Finance: "Inflation Reduction Act after its first year"
Interview with Akiko Fujita & Seana Smith
Carbon Capture and Delay
As long as coal plants are still operating, it is a good idea to require them capture their carbon dioxide emissions. But those designing policies to hasten such practices must tread carefully, lest they unwittingly extend the life of dirtier energy sources.
Heatmap: "The Green Hydrogen Debate Is Much Bigger Than Hydrogen"
By Emily Pontecorvo
ClimateWire: "White House to agencies: Tally projects’ financial damage to ecosystems"
By Jean Chemnick
ClimateWire: "EPA's carbon metric may underestimate climate damage — at least for now"
By Jean Chemnick
Die Presse: "Wie gefährlich ist der Wasserstoff-Hype?"
von Matthias Auer
OPEC Fund Development Forum
Vienna, Austria
Science: "US benefit-cost analysis requires revision"
Howard et al. (2023) Science 380 (6647).
Semafor: "What a default means for clean energy"
by Tim McDonnell
Climate × Data
Columbia Business School
Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?
Rather than impeding the clean-energy race, the recent collapse of the US start-up community's go-to bank offers valuable lessons for managing the public-private minuet that the net-zero transition requires. The doomsayers are missing the bigger picture.
Europe Must Tax Brown and Subsidize Green
The US Inflation Reduction Act is a landmark legislative package that should be welcomed around the world, despite its putatively protectionist features. Owing to the positive learning-by-doing spillovers that follow from green subsidies, Europe and the rest of the world ultimately will benefit, too.
NPR Marketplace: "White House EV investment push especially benefits one region"
By Mitchell Hartman
3 ways to spend Biden’s clean-energy windfall faster
Build, build, build.
Raise the federal debt limit
Letter organized by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth
NPR Marketplace: "United launches $100 million green jet fuel fund"
By Mitchell Hartman