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Climate Change
January 19, 2023

PPI: Gas Key Part of Transition

Democratic Group Urges Increased U.S. Gas Production, Doubling LNG Exports, and Continuing to Reduce Methane Leaks. Paul Bledsoe of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) argues in The Climate Case for Expanding U.S. Natural Gas Exports that the United States can help become a clean energy superpower by leveraging both green innovations and exports of low-emitting U.S.-made […]

World Bank
March 31, 2021

World Bank Climate Policy

World Bank Revises Climate Policy but Continues Fossil Fuel Funding Valerie Volcovici, Andrea Shalal, Kate Abnett- Reuters (March 31): A revised World Bank policy on climate change commits to making financing decisions in line with efforts to limit global warming but stops short of promising to halt funding of fossil fuels, according to a draft bank presentation […]

EPRI
March 27, 2021

EPRI’s Mansoor on Climate Math

EPRI CEO Tells Biden How to Do His Climate Math Abby Smith, Wash. Examiner (March 27): Arshad Mansoor, CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute, is cautioning the Biden administration not to fixate on reaching carbon-free power by 2035. Instead, Mansoor is calling on the administration to broaden its view so it doesn’t compromise the […]