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Three Warning Signs America is Losing the Global Clean Energy Race
Most clean energy advocates today will likely tell you that America’s clean energy economy is doing quite well, despite the negative media coverage. Andrew Winston best captured this sentiment in...
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Climate Hawks and ‘Reverse Tribalism’: How Our Policy Choices Are Fueling...
A self-aware and important discussion has emerged among climate advocates on ‘reverse tribalism’: the process by which some within the climate community scold climate hawks for making exaggerated...
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Creating Better Climate Policy: Linking Carbon Taxes to Investments in Clean...
Nipping at the heels of Mayor Bloomberg’s climate-tinged Presidential endorsement, Hurricane Sandy, and President Obama’s victory speech shout-out to climate change is a reinvigorated debate on carbon...
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Reshaping the Department of Energy in Obama’s Second Term: Institutional...
Photo credit: Wikipedia As my colleague Clifton Yin and I have written recently, U.S. clean energy innovation policy is at an inflection point. The decisions made in the coming months and years will...
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Re-shaping the Department of Energy in Obama’s Second Term: Picking a New...
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu is widely expectedto leave the administration and there has already been widespread speculation about his Image Credit: Energy.Gov possible replacement....
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Countering David Frum: Super-Charging Energy Innovation through Public...
Earlier this month, The Daily Beast columnist David Frum took the opportunity of a book review of Michael Grunwald’s The New New Deal to deride the idea of direct public investment in energy...
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Wyden and Murkowski: The Great Senate Hope for Energy Innovation Policy in 2013
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin recently proclaimed in reference to possible energy policy in 2013, “I have never been more optimistic than I am right now with Ron Wyden and Lisa Murkowski.” That’s a...
View ArticleThe Past, Present, and New Year of U.S. Clean Energy Policy
When President Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, clean energy was largely a policymaking afterthought. Federal investment in clean energy research and development (R&D) stood at...
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The Quiet Clean Energy Innovation Revolution at the Department of Energy
America’s clean energy policy has gone through significant changes in the last four years: game-changing public investments in clean energy innovation, funding for ARPA-E, and the creation of...
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Obama Emerges As A Born-Again Climate Hawk. Now What Can He Do?
“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations…The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and...
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