Carbon dioxide

Estimating Benefits of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Social Cost of Carbon

In Paris at the end of 2015, the world’s governments decided to be more ambitious than ever on climate change. They set their sights on a goal of limiting the increase in average global temperature to well below two degrees Celsius. Countries committed to constrain their greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 to 15 years.

Byline:

Steven Rose

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Marginal Utility

The Carbon Paradigm Shift

The telephone companies dumped land lines for cellular, and prospered, thanks to their size, ability to raise funds, and name recognition. They migrated to a new paradigm. Can’t electricity providers?

Byline:

Leonard S. Hyman and William I. Tilles

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Action Needed Now To Prevent More Nuclear Plant Closures

Threat to nearly one-fifth of our nation’s ninety-nine reactors is real

Individually, these closures are understandable financial decisions. But the cumulative impact endangers any chance of meeting U.S. climate change goals.

Byline:

Maria Korsnick

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Order 745: A Time Bomb for Electricity Consumers

One of the worst orders FERC has ever produced

Order 745 overcompensates demand response, unduly discriminates against wholesale suppliers, sanctions and institutionally enforces the exercise of monopsony market power, and will ultimately raise electricity prices.

Byline:

Robert Borlick

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Getting Berned

What’s the price tag of banning fracking?

Ironically, a ban on fracking would increase coal generation, which emits carbon dioxide at twice the rate of gas generation.

Byline:

Steve Huntoon

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First Look at 2015 CO2 Emission Trends for the U.S.

Part I – Economy-wide Trends

The carbon dioxide emission reductions in the electric power sector have been the largest single factor in reductions in the U.S. since 2005.

Byline:

Daniel Klein

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Nuclear Debate: Hansen is Wrong about Nuclear Power

Nuclear, a drain on our ability to deal with climate solutions, energy needs.

Dr. James Hansen, the renowned climate change scientist, has said that nuclear power is essential to combat climate change. We disagree. Nuclear energy is a boondoggle.

Byline:

Russell Lowes and Edward Mainland

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Obligations and Opportunities: Wires Cos. Plug In to Clean Power Plan

Vol. 1: “If It’s Stayed, Why Should I Go?”

When the the Clean Power Plan is reviewed on the merits in Fall 2017, Justice Scalia will have been replaced, and the newest justice may hold the key to the fate of the plan.

Byline:

Brendan Collins

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Forum for Our Industry's Civil Discourse

Fortnightly’s new chief reflects on his background and our principles.

The public interest is the coin of this realm.

Byline:

Steve Mitnick

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EPA's Clean Power Plan

Charting a Path Forward

With respect to the Clean Power Plan, the question is whether EPA will address the major issues and reinforce its positions in advance of the anticipated legal challenges.

Byline:

Steven A. Weiler

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