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.
Inside Philanthropy Quotes EIRP CEO Nuclear Policy Funding
Inside Philanthropy quotes EIRP Samuel Thernstrom in a major article on foundations funding nuclear work. Thernstrom encourages foundations funding nuclear energy policy research to take a technologically neutral approach.
Leading environmental news site EcoWatch cites Samuel Thernstrom regarding the challenges to achieving a reliance on 100% renewable energy. He is quoted as saying that “we need a serious conversation about these issues to get there” but the conversation is “painfully slow and difficult.”
On July 30, 2019, EIRP President Paul Saunders spoke on a Center for the National Interest panel discussing US-China competition and energy policy. Saunders and George Mason University Professor Hart both agreed that technology innovation is key to combating climate change; however, they differed over the extent to which America is likely to be able to cooperate with China in addressing this global challenge.
The National Review quotes CEO Sam Thernstrom on the inadequacy of renewable resources alone in meeting America’s electricity demand.
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…
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.
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.
