An Energy Efficiency Needle in the Relief Bill Haystack
A critical tool for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is buried in the massive “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021’’: a provision that offers permanent ...
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Protecting the Climate: How to Get America Back on Track
The United States can offer new hope for getting the world back on track to limit the damage from climate change. There is much that it can achieve on the natio...
A Ladder of Ambition for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Buildings
Zero Net Energy embraces several related but distinct goals. This blog identifies four levels of increasing ambition, like rungs on a ladder and suggests that S...
We Can Transform U.S. Industry
In its detailed and ambitious report, the Select Committee offers dozens of solutions and policy recommendations. If implemented, these recommendations would me...
COVID-19 and Climate Change: Creating the Political Will
The global response to the COVID-19 crisis has shown that strong policy actions that seemed infeasible months ago were in fact implemented across the globe to a...
Industrial Efficiency Can Restore Jobs and Competitiveness
Programs to increase the efficiency of energy use in industry can speed the economic recovery from COVID-19 while continuing to cut climate pollution emissions....