Saunders Explains Why the Climate Risk Disclosure Act Misses the Mark
Writing for MarketWatch, EIRP President Paul Saunders argues that Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Climate Risk Disclosure Act goes well beyond its name. Rather than protecting investors, the bill attempts to use the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a price on carbon. That isn’t the …
EIRP President Paul J. Saunders argues in his recent op-ed that to promote deeper U.S.-China cooperation in combating climate change, advocates must demonstrate that economic and environmental benefits will be greater than the costs that come with the transfer of wealth and technology from the United States to China.
Writing for the prominent foreign policy magazine The National Interest, EIRP President Paul J. Saunders argues that energy innovation can contribute importantly to U.S. economic competitiveness and to America’s global leadership, especially in an era of growing great power competition with China.
Writing for the New York Times, MIT researcher Jesse Jenkins and EIRP CEO Sam Thernstrom report on their recent survey of research on decarbonization and its lessons for the Green New Deal.
Board member Steven Hayward described an EIRP cost assessment of advanced nuclear power for the conservative Powerline blog.
Samuel Thernstrom writes in The Weekly Standard on the astonishing promise of enhanced oil recovery. Just five years ago, almost no one outside the natural gas industry had heard of fracking, even though the basic technologies were not new; today, the shale gas revolution has transformed America’s energy markets, with profound effects for economic growth, competitiveness, security, and environmental quality.
On July 11, 2014, EIRP and the Center for the National Interest co-sponsored a panel discussion of the Obama administration’s climate and energy policy.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Garman and Samuel Thernstrom assess the practical challenges European governments have confronted in increasing use of renewable energy.
Writing for Bloomberg, Samuel Thernstrom and David Garman outline a reform agenda for the Department of Energy to move the department beyond the Solyndra scandal and the troubled loan guarantee program by refocusing its work on basic and pre-commercial research into key energy technologies.
