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In(stallers) the Nick of Time

June 10, 2022
Source: Canary Media
This June 8 story explains how solar installers and developers are breathing easier after a federal policy intervention changes course - and why some manufacturers are fuming.
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The Net-Net Looks Like a Mess-Mess

April 01, 2022
Source: Washington Post
This March 31 analysis looks at squabbles with utilities over who bears the transmission cost when more people generate their own clean power. It focuses on Florida and California.

Explainer: How Do Public Policies Reinforce Building Electrification Financing (Part Two)?

Tyler Clevenger
March 31, 2022
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Each building owner, with a team of investors, needs to work out a particular electrification schedule. Broad public policies, though, can advance new technologies or marketing strategies that can help more buildings go electric sooner. This sequel to our earlier explainer sets out some scalable policies from across the United...
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Of Iron Man's Endorsement and Carbon Removal's Evolution

March 25, 2022
Source: Axios
Evidently too excited to wait for our explainer on the subject, Robert Downey Jr. tweeted bullishly about carbon removal recently. This March 21 story places the pronoucement in context.
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It's Rare Earths, Not Scorched Earth, in Congressional Policy

January 28, 2022
Source: CNBC
Where will the startups and adopters and utilities find chemicals to build their batteries to meet the pledges to live in the world that decarbonization built? This January 26 rundown of a pending American law nods to key industries and regions.
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You Can Only Charge Your Purchases For So Long - Even for Batteries

January 21, 2022
Source: S & P Global
Lithium-ion batteries are the world's most common kind. They're also the preferred kind by bidders in a recent contract with a California community provider, according to this January 20 story.
Patrick Kovarik.Getty Images took this photo for Fashionista.

(Photo by Patrick Kovarik for Getty Images in Fashionista, September 25, 2020.) Chanel once staged a fashion show with wind turbines. The author argues that assertive tax policy can make renewable wardrobes a fashion-forward investment. 

Policy Memo: A Good Look for Apparel's Industrial Decarbonization Path

Elizabeth Rich
January 14, 2022
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The US, as the largest consumer and highest emitter of carbon per capita, bears a critical share of the responsibility to facilitate a transition to sustainable practices. ​​​​​This article lays out the rationale and a pathway for the US to incentivize the apparel industry’s decarbonization. I propose a preferential tariff...
Utility Solar in Spotsylvania County VA

(Photo by Hugh Kenny, Piedmont Environmental Council.) A solar array in Virginia stands for the kinds of investment that could crowd in with a properly targeted federal carbon price. 

Policy Memo: Lower Price, Higher Potential

Katie Sarro
January 07, 2022
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Climate scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report warned that without immediate large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause devastating economic and human losses. Policymakers must come together to implement a comprehensive climate change strategy in the United States.
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Of Course it Takes Metal to Make a Reliable (EV Supply) Chain

December 10, 2021
Source: CNBC
A smallish company's CEO held forth to CNBC on December 9 about a partnership with a slightly bigger outfit called General Motors to source and supply EV battery components from a site in California.
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Unsafe at Any Source? Urban Planners Query Electric-SUV Strategy

November 19, 2021
Source: Streetsblog
Venture investors and auto-company directors rarely take strategic pointers from urban-planning activists. In light of this November 19 essay pinpointing electric SUVs' sustainability failings, perhaps they should.

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