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Five Takeaways from the IPCC Report on Extreme Weather and Climate Change

By James Bradbury and Kelly Levin on November 18, 2011
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The world must brace for more extreme weather.

With Federal Climate Policy Stuck in Neutral, California Moves Ahead

By Kevin Kennedy on November 15, 2011
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While there has been little progress on national climate policy this year, California has quietly continued to make strides in implementing its comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction

Want Low-Cost Clean Energy? Bank on Innovation

By Letha Tawney on November 14, 2011
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In the United States, there is a heated debate about how much government should support renewable

Q & A on the Release of Climate Science 2009-2010

By Kelly Levin on October 12, 2011
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Today, WRI releases Climate Science 2009-2010, the latest installment in our periodic review of the state of play of the scienc

An Extreme Summer Shows Why We Need to Get Real About Climate Change

By Kevin Kennedy on September 15, 2011
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A version of this piece originally appeared in a special energy section of The Hill.

Five Myths About Extreme Weather

By Manish Bapna and Jennifer Morgan on July 22, 2011
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This story originally appeared in the Washington Post.

California Cap-and-Trade: Taking the Time to Get the Details Right

By Kevin Kennedy on July 15, 2011
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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff is holding a workshop today on additional details that were recently announc

The “Social Cost of Carbon” and Climate Change Policy

By Ruth Greenspan Bell on July 13, 2011

Economist Frank Ackerman has called the “social cost of carbon” the most important number you never heard of. What is the social cost of carbon, where do the numbers come from, and why should policymakers take care when using them?

Old Roads to a New Destination

By Nicholas Bianco and Franz Litz on April 29, 2011

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2011 edition of The Environmental Forum (www.eli.org), and is reposted with permission.

Dialogue on Performance Standards for Existing Power Plants: Participant Comments to EPA

By Franz Litz on April 21, 2011

In two legal challenges filed in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, a number of states and non-governmental organizations sought to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate new and existing power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

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