Research Analyst
Michael Gaffney is a Research Analyst with Rhodium Group’s Energy & Climate practice.
Energy & ClimateMichael joined Rhodium from the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), where he earned a Master of Public Policy. At GPS, he specialized in energy and environmental policy and conducted research on electric vehicle charging behavior and policy in California. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a Senior Associate at TDC, a Boston-based nonprofit management consulting firm. Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley.
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In our annually updated outlook for US greenhouse gas emissions under current federal and state policy, we find that the US is on track to reduce emissions 38-56% below 2005 levels by 2035, absent any additional new action.
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EPA recently finalized new standards for regulating greenhouse gases from power plants. We analyze what the new rules mean for electric power GHG and conventional pollutant emissions into the next decade.
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The industrial sector is on a path to becoming the highest-emitting sector in the US in the early 2030s, pointing to the critical need to rapidly deploy decarbonization solutions if the US is to achieve meaningful economy-wide decarbonization.
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State action has been a key historic driver of climate ambition, and additional policy action by states can help further close the gap between current emissions projections and US 2030 climate targets. In addition, states can leverage investments mad
