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Senate Democrats Developing Carbon Tax Proposal to Pay for Spending Bill Bloomberg

EPA Orders Slash in Climate-Warming Chemicals Used in AC and Refrigeration CNBC

Manchin, Barrasso Announce Bill to Revegetate Forests After Devastating Fires The Hill

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Extreme Weather Events: Multi-Pathway Approaches Within Our Grasp By Scott Sklar President, The Stella Group, LTD Sustainable Energy Director at George Washington University's Environment and Energy Management Institute

"As an industrialized nation, we can no longer rely primarily on the electric grid for publicly utilized infrastructure. Extreme weather events are only going to be more severe. We need to re-envision our infrastructure as a hybrid system of 'on-site' renewables with energy storage. "The bipartisan infrastructure bill and budget reconciliation bill now in play in Congress can specifically address all the issues above, but we will still need solutions at the state and local levels, in the private sector, and in the investment community to drive this change...." Read more.

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OEP Roundtable Paper

Guiding Principles for Sound Energy Policy

OurEnergyPolicy (OEP) has released a new white paper, Guiding Principles for Sound Energy Policy. Eleven energy policy experts representing industry, government, non-profit organizations, academia, and more identified the following as principles to guide energy policy: Reliability Affordability Decarbonization Equity and Inclusion Integrated Policy Respecting Sound Science Technology Neutral This paper is the result of OEP's April 2021 stakeholder roundtable and a larger initiative to produce a list of principles that can guide the creation of well-constructed energy policy at any level of government.

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Publications in the OurEnergyLibrary

Carbon Pricing and Regulations Compared: An Economic Explainer  Niskanen Center September 21, 2021

The Not-So-Rare Earth Elements: A Question of Supply and Demand  Kleinman Center for Energy Policy September 23, 2021

Curbing Methane Emissions: How Five Industries Can Counter a Major Climate Threat --- McKinsey & Company September 23, 2021

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