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I Get a (Rust and Sun) Belt Out of You

February 10, 2023
Source: CNBC
This February 7 story tracks 100,000 announced hires to incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, with tens of thousands in states whose senators voted against the bill.
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OK, So First We'll All Move to Hawaii...

February 03, 2023
Source: Hawaii Public Radio
This January 27 report notes growth in distributed solar as an energy source in the Aloha State - and concurrent growth in energy independence.
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America Shows the World...a Focus on Traditional Jobs for Climate Solutions

January 06, 2023
Source: The Atlantic
This January 5 feature traces the manufacturing promise investors can descry in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Call it a Cactus Telegraph

August 05, 2022
Source: E & E News
On August 4, the publication quoted an Arizona bigshot supporting the climate bill currently before the Senate as catalytic for utility profits. A day later, Arizona's senior senator announced her support for the bill.
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Subnational Politics Rise to the Financial Fore

July 29, 2022
Source: Route Fifty
This July 24 nugget from a states-focused site declares "the state and local climate candidate" ascendant, with implications for public and private financial growth. (By way of disclosure, CEFF's editor has led a volunteer workshop for some Climate Cabinet candidates, not including the one this story profiles.)
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Escaping the Interior Monologue in the Southwestern US

July 15, 2022
Source: E & E News
The United States' Bureau of Land Management, says this July 16 story, approved a transmission line between Arizona and southern California that should support delivery of more renewable energy to those overheated markets.
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Collateral Damage? A Shadow Over Nuclear Prospects in Countering Russia

May 06, 2022
Source: The New York Times
This May 2 story ponders how extract can again wreak undue harms on tribal nations if the United States government mines uranium from those nations in a bid to squeeze Russia.

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...
Can Clean Peak Standards brighten the view in this part of Brooklyn?

Activists in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood have explored whether Clean Peak Standards can address air quality and energy inequity. (Photo by Victoria Belanger via Flickr Creative Commons.) 

Explainer: Can Clean Peak Standards Make Energy Economics Meet Energy Justice?

Elwin Lim
March 29, 2022
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One state has tried requiring power at peak demand periods to come from clean sources. This mandate can improve air quality in low-income communities. Critics question its effect on emissions, though, and its optimal design as clean-energy storage for utilities evolves.
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 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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