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A Clean Energy Guide to the Tax Legislation Conference Committee
Broad tax legislation advanced by the US Congress would impact provisions for wind, solar, electric vehicles, and other clean energy.
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Electric System Reliability: No Clear Link to Coal and Nuclear
Fuel supply issues were responsible for 0.00007% of lost customer electric service hours between 2012-2016 in the US, with no clear relationship between higher system levels of coal and nuclear generation and better system performance.
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What the Clean Power Plan Would Have Done
The Trump EPA is expected to take the first step tomorrow in formally repealing and replacing the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the first-ever regulations on CO2 emissions from existing power plants and the crown jewel of the Obama administration’s Climate…
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The Real Electricity Reliability Crisis
Of all the major power disruptions, nation-wide over the past five years, only 0.00007% were due to fuel supply problems.
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Hotter, Poorer and More Unequal
In a major new study published in the journal Science, the researchers at the Rhodium Group and other Climate Impact Lab partners find that unmitigated climate change will significantly exacerbate income inequality in the US.
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Taking Stock 2017: Adjusting Expectations for US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Our 2017 “Taking Stock” report includes policy changes under the Trump Administration, new U.S. EPA GHG inventory estimates, and energy market and technology developments over the past year.
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Coal Quarterly: Profits Rise but Employment Falls
In this note, we take a look at how the coal industry fared during the first quarter of the year, drawing on new data released last Friday from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MHSA).
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Can Coal Make a Comeback?
We offer an empirical diagnosis of the causes of the U.S. coal industry collapse over the last six years, which has been characterized by bankruptcy filings from three of the four largest U.S. miners and plummeting employment in the sector.
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Taking Stock 2017: Trump’s Regulatory Rollback Begins
In this report we update our Taking Stock analysis to include recent energy market developments and the impact of President Trump's executive order rolling back many of the Obama administration's climate policies.
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Climate Change’s Partisan Divide
People’s belief in climate science tightly correlates with how they voted in the 2016 Presidential election. While the partisan nature of climate change has been understood for some time, new data shows just how polarized the issue has become.