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.
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.
Vox energy and climate writer David Roberts describes an EIRP literature review by MIT expert Jesse Jenkins and Samuel Thernstrom in the context of wider debates on energy and climate change.
The UAE web site The National reported on an EIRP cost assessment of advanced nuclear power plants in the context of growing interest in nuclear power in the Middle East.
On October 17, 2017, EIRP and the Center for the National Interest organized a panel discussion of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century.
The UK energy/climate web site The Energy Collective reports on an EIRP study of advanced nuclear power plant costs, conducted with the Energy Options Network.
The clean energy web site GreenBiz cited an EIRP research study on deep decarbonization of the power sector.
Executive director Samuel Thernstrom talked to R & D Magazine reporter Kenny Walter about a 2017 EIRP study of the costs of advanced nuclear power plants in an in-depth interview.
