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Maximillian Auffhammer Nest(ing): A home-energy home run for Mother Earth

Maximillian Auffhammer, associate professor, agricultural and resource economics | 4/22/13 | 8 comments

Happy Earth Day everyone! I briefly contemplated a doom and gloom post about the state of the global climate and lack of regulation. But let’s focus on what does work, albeit at a much smaller scale, instead of what doesn’t work.

Team Auffhammer has invested a lot of money in energy … More >

Eric Biber The future of climate politics (pt. 2)

Eric Biber, professor of law | 2/22/13 | Leave a comment

In my last post, I noted a recent report that called for a new political path for environmentalists and others seeking to enact carbon policy in the United States, one that focused on developing policy proposals that would help mobilize a grassroots movement to support limits on greenhouse gases.  My … More >

Jayni Foley Hein Follow the sun: Mexico on target to pass national climate-change law

Jayni Foley Hein, Executive Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment | 4/16/12 | 2 comments

With Friday’s lower chamber passage of a new national climate change law, Mexico is poised to become a pioneer in climate change policy, proving the United States and the rest of the world that environmental protection and economic growth are both critical and achievable goals.

On April 13, Mexico’s 500-member Chamber … More >

Steven Weissman Alberta’s tar sands a slow-motion equivalent of the Gulf disaster

Steven Weissman, associate director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment | 6/24/10 | 12 comments

If you were President Obama, what would you do about the tar sands fields in Alberta?  He is being asked to approve or reject a pipeline extension that would carry 900,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude deep into the United States.  It has to be exceedingly tempting to just … More >

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