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A 180 Degree Shift in Energy Policy?

February 13, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

A Window for U.S. Action on Climate Change

February 11, 2013, Nathan Hultman

A Climate Diplomacy Proposal: Carbon Pricing Consultations

February 8, 2013, Adele Morris, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen

Want a Pro-Growth Pro-Environment Plan? Economists Agree: Tax Carbon.

February 7, 2013, Adele Morris

The Black Swan: The Big Thaw

February 6, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

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Energy and Climate: Black to Gold to Green

January 17, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger and Kevin Massy

The Big Thaw

January 17, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

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Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama’s Second Term

January 17, 2013

Another Untapped Resource: Mine the Uranium Now!

January 10, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

In today’s world we have many more development stakeholders, so there’s no need for a single agency to try to do everything. It’s far better to try to do some things and to try to do them really well.

January 10, 2013, Homi Kharas, Bloomberg Businessweek

Fracking More Complex Than "Promised Land" Lets On

January 10, 2013, John P. Banks

Bad Tax Policy Makes Bad Energy Policy

January 7, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

Nuclear Power in Developing Countries? Let's Talk about It

December 16, 2012, John P. Banks and Kevin Massy

Distributional Effects of a Carbon Tax in the Context of Broader Fiscal Reform

December 14, 2012, Aparna Mathur and Adele Morris

The Final Stretch of the Doha Climate Talks

December 5, 2012, Nathan Hultman and Claire Langley

The Political Viability of Carbon Taxation

December 5, 2012, Barry Rabe

Bridging The Gap: Integrating Price Mechanisms Into International Climate Negotiations

December 3, 2012, Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter J. Wilcoxen

Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States: Case Studies from the Middle East

November 2012, John P. Banks, Kevin Massy and Charles K. Ebinger

Is Washington Ready For a Carbon Tax?

November 19, 2012, Mark Muro

Pricing Carbon in the U.S.: A Model-Based Analysis of Power Sector Only Approaches

October 10, 2012, Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter J. Wilcoxen

Supported by subsidies but also by rapid technical advances, onshore wind and solar photovoltaic installations are way up, and the price of delivered renewable energy is way down ... Wind and solar need the help because the barriers for new technologies in the energy industry are tougher than those in any other industry in this country.

October 8, 2012, Mark Muro, Wall Street Journal

Debating Energy Policy

September 25, 2012, John P. Banks

States really are more or less on their own if they want to pursue a large scale-up of low-carbon energy solutions. [Green banks are] a worthy experiment in trying to make limited state revenues go farther.

September 24, 2012, Mark Muro, Inside Climate News

The Peculiar Politics of Energy

September 13, 2012, Ann Florini

Combet’s Carbon Incompetence

August 30, 2012, Warwick J. McKibbin