Tag: Policy Research
How Early Climate Leadership Locked Germany Into The Wrong Hydrogen Bet
Germany’s hydrogen pipeline from nowhere to nowhere did not emerge from ignorance or indifference. It emerged from good intentions formed early, when climate risk was clear and credible solutions were scarce. In the 1990s and early 2000s, jurisdictions that accepted climate science faced a thin menu of options. Wind and … [continued]
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The Long US Goodbye to New Gas Connections and the Legal Tools States Are Using to Get There
Gas bans in new buildings moved from obscure municipal policy to national legal conflict in a remarkably short period of time. For most of the past decade, city ordinances limiting or prohibiting new natural gas hookups were treated as a local matter tied to building codes, air quality, and long … [continued]
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Canada’s LNG Mirage: Why Most Projects Won’t Be Built and Taxpayers Won’t See the Payoff
Canada is planning LNG export infrastructure as if global gas demand growth will persist for decades, but the energy system is moving in a different direction. Under conditions of sustained LNG oversupply, rapid global deployment of solar and batteries, and rising financing costs for fossil infrastructure, most proposed Canadian LNG … [continued]
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Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards Means Higher Costs for Drivers, and a Worsening Climate
By Josh Valentine & Travis Madsen, SWEEP Even as the Trump administration cranks up the volume on “affordability,” it is quietly moving to dismantle one of the most effective consumer protection policies in transportation: federal fuel economy standards. The latest proposal to weaken Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules would … [continued]
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China’s Chips Manhattan Project And The Semiconductor Skills Race
China’s covert effort to build an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) system, described as a Manhattan Project and leveraging Chinese nationals with experience from key Dutch EUV manufacturer ASML, is not interesting because it appeared suddenly or because it surprised intelligence agencies. It is interesting because it exposed how industrial capability … [continued]
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