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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.
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Assessing the Effect of Rising Temperatures: The Cost of Climate Change to the U.S. Power Sector
In this report, commissioned by the Department of Energy and included in the latest installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review, we assess the potential impact of climate change on the US electric power sector.
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What Is It Worth? The State of the Art in Valuing Distributed Energy Resources
This report, commissioned by the Department of Energy and included in the latest installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review, offers regulators a guide to valuing distributed resources.
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Nukes in the Crosshairs Revisited: The Market and Emissions Impacts of Retirements
Low natural gas prices, weak electricity demand growth and the rapid expansion of renewables have reduced power sector CO2 emissions to their lowest level in more than a quarter century. These same factors, however, are now also putting the nation’s…
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Assessing the Final Clean Power Plan: Energy Market Impacts
In the third and final note in our series on the Clean Power Plan, we explore the energy market outcomes of the rule under two scenarios and discuss what factors could change the magnitude of these impacts.
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What Happens to Renewable Energy Without the Clean Power Plan?
A little over a week ago, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down an order to stay enforcement of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) until the legality of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) landmark CO2 regulation is settled.…
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The Hidden Cause of America’s Coal Collapse
The US coal mining sector is in free-fall. The market value of US coal companies today is a fraction of what it was just a few years ago. Dozens have gone bankrupt. The public debate regarding the cause of US coal’s decline has focused largely on domestic…