Energy News Network writer Jean Chemnick quotes EIRP’s Sam Thernstrom on how Republicans view climate science. He is quoted as saying “I think Republicans are in a very different space now. I think they are much more on board with the idea that there are harms to climate change and that they are attributable to man-made CO2 emissions…
On February 28, 2019, EIRP CEO Samuel Thernstrom testified during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. He assessed the Paris Agreement and presented his perspective on U.S. domestic energy and climate policy.
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.
David Garman, a former Under Secretary of Energy during the George W. Bush administration and the lead author of a new joint report by the Clean Air Task Force and the Energy Innovation Reform Project, explains why he believes the Department of Energy needs reform and how to do it.
The New York Times quotes Samuel Thernstrom on electricity markets and refers to EIRP and its work in a major article on innovation.
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.
To discuss how an innovation-centric approach could bridge the partisan divide over climate policy. Chris Hayes talks with Samuel Thernstrom, who served on the White House Council on Environmental Quality under George W. Bush, about whether it’s possible to bring Republicans into the fold on climate policymaking.
National Review’s Reihan Salam notes costly European energy policy measures identify opportunities for reform in the United States.
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 in National Review, Reihan Salam praises an early EIRP policy paper recommending substantial reforms at the Department of Energy.
