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Debt ceiling brinksmanship has clear negative effects on taxpayers
Debt limit brinksmanship is already impacting Treasury securities. The increase in interest rates represents a cost to taxpayers and a lack of confidence among investors.
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Ten Economic Facts about Electricity and the Clean Energy Transition
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Principles for Public Investment in Climate-Responsible Energy Innovation
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How Worried Should We Be if the Debt Ceiling Isn’t Lifted?
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Ten Economic Facts about Electricity and the Clean Energy Transition
This set of facts elevates key energy system characteristics, especially within electricity production, that will be consequential to the clean energy transiti…
Principles for Public Investment in Climate-Responsible Energy Innovation
This proposal lays out the rationale for substantially increasing federal spending on clean energy research and development, along with four foundational pilla…
How to Reduce Emissions as Much as Possible at the Lowest Cost
This blog post and video explain how existing emissions policies could be updated once a sufficiently high carbon price is in place. They also underscore the i…
How to Change U.S. Climate Policy after There Is a Price on Carbon
If a robust carbon price is successfully implemented, other regulations that target carbon emissions may become redundant, less effective, or more expensive. R…
Market-Based Clean Performance Standards as Building Blocks for Carbon Pricing
Because industrial sectors contribute a large fraction of total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, addressing their emissions is an essential eleme…
Promoting Innovation for Low-Carbon Technologies
In this paper, David Popp points out that despite the recent progress made in clean technology innovation, much remains to be done in order to decarbonize our …
Ten Facts about the Economics of Climate Change and Climate Policy
Substantial physical, biological and economic damages will occur as a result of climate change in the absence of strong policy action. In this set of economic …
Promoting Energy Innovation with Lessons from Drug Development
Despite progress toward a cleaner energy system, current U.S. policies appear insufficient to reduce emissions enough to avoid catastrophic climate change whil…
