This post was authored by Gabriela Leslie, Pedro Piris-Cabezas and Ruben Lubowski For more information, read our factsheet, The Power of Markets to Increase Ambition. Carbon pricing is steadily growing worldwide and increasingly recognized as a way to achieve emissions reductions at lower cost than with standard regulations. A recent economic analysis from Environmental Defense […]

This post was authored by Gabriela Leslie, Pedro Piris-Cabezas and Ruben Lubowski For more information, read our factsheet, The Power of Markets to Increase Ambition. Update: the analysis in this blog has been published in the journal World Development (open source). Carbon pricing is steadily growing worldwide and increasingly recognized as a way to achieve […]

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This post was authored by Gabriela Leslie, Pedro Piris-Cabezas and Ruben Lubowski Carbon pricing is steadily growing worldwide and increasingly recognized as a way to achieve emissions reductions at lower cost than with standard regulations. A recent economic analysis from Environmental Defense Fund found that these cost savings from international trading of emissions could translate […]

This post was written by EDF consultant Chester France, who served as a Senior Executive at EPA and led the development of vehicle standards at the agency   Very soon, the Trump administration is expected to propose dramatically weakening America’s Clean Car Standards under the Orwellian title “The Safer and More Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) […]

This post was written by EDF consultant Chester France, who served as a Senior Executive at EPA and led the development of vehicle standards at the agency   Very soon, the Trump administration is expected to propose dramatically weakening America’s Clean Car Standards under the Orwellian title “The Safer and More Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) […]

Yesterday afternoon, local officials and Blue Shield of California employees gathered in El Dorado Hills as CEO Paul Markovich cut the ribbon on the healthcare company’s newest solar power installation. I’m always excited to see companies breaking ground on clean energy projects, but I’m particularly thrilled about this one. That’s because three years ago, I […]

Yesterday afternoon, local officials and Blue Shield of California employees gathered in El Dorado Hills as CEO Paul Markovich cut the ribbon on the healthcare company’s newest solar power installation. I’m always excited to see companies breaking ground on clean energy projects, but I’m particularly thrilled about this one. That’s because three years ago, I […]

Yesterday afternoon, local officials and Blue Shield of California employees gathered in El Dorado Hills as CEO Paul Markovich cut the ribbon on the healthcare company’s newest solar power installation. I’m always excited to see companies breaking ground on clean energy projects, but I’m particularly thrilled about this one. That’s because three years ago, I […]

New study of Europe's largest gas field reveals higher emissions than official estimates indicate, but those emissions are lower than those in North America

Tom Neltner, Lindsay McCormick, and Audrey McIntosh This blog is part of a series focused on how states are handling the essential task of developing inventories of lead service lines (LSLs) and making them public. The first blog identified 14 states that were taking on the issue: 4 with mandatory programs and 10 with voluntary. The […]

RT @catherineittner: Playing bailout whack-a-mole with FirstEnergy. “You beat it down in one place, and it just keeps popping up somewhere…

The Trump administration’s proposed rollback of America’s Clean Car Standards is bad news — for your pocketbook, climate security and clean air, auto sector jobs, and state leadership. A leaked draft of the administration’s proposal recommends gutting the existing Clean Car Standards — even though they’re already in place, delivering pollution reductions and saving Americans’ […]

The Trump administration’s proposed rollback of America’s Clean Car Standards is bad news — for your pocketbook, climate security and clean air, auto sector jobs, and state leadership. A leaked draft of the administration’s proposal recommends gutting the existing Clean Car Standards — even though they’re already in place, delivering pollution reductions and saving Americans’ […]

The EPA is violating bipartisan legislation passed in 2016 to update our chemical safety system by ignoring key sources of exposure to chemicals linked to cancer and other health impacts. MCAF. C3. Regional.