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PPI | Policy Report | April 22, 2009
Essential Lessons from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
By Derek K. Murrow and Peter Shattuck
A new paper from PPI highlights three vital lessons from one American program that has already used cap-and-trade to reduce climate-changing emissions.
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | March 17, 2009
New Dem of the Week: Tobias Read
With unemployment rates continuing to soar, legislators across the country are looking to create long term solutions to todays problems while also creating jobs. In Oregon, the creation of green-collar jobs has become an important part of the states recovery effort. Last month, Oregon State Representative and DLC Fellow Tobias Read, along with a bipartisan group of legislators, introduced The Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Technology Act of 2009 (EEAST).
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | March 3, 2009
New Dem of the Week: Steve Beshear
With a weak economy and ever tightening budgets, families across America are struggling to pay their high utility bills. In an effort to help low-income families in his state, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has announced the creation of the Clean Energy Corps Pilot Program. Launched last week, the goal is to reduce energy costs in low-income households by assessing the need for energy improvements and making appropriate energy efficiency upgrades.
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | March 2, 2009
New Dem of the Week: Steve Beshear
With a weak economy and ever tightening budgets, families across America are struggling to pay their high utility bills. In an effort to help low-income families in his state, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has announced the creation of the Clean Energy Corps Pilot Program. Launched last week, the goal is to reduce energy costs in low-income households by assessing the need for energy improvements and making appropriate energy efficiency upgrades.
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PPI | Front & Center | February 24, 2009
Quicksilver Accord
By Dr. Jan Mazurek
After eight years of U.S. reluctance to enter into binding international efforts to combat urgent environmental threats, the Obama administration's early actions on mercury herald a welcome effort to restore U.S. environmental leadership.
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PPI | Front & Center | January 26, 2009
Clean Cars: Putting the United States on the Road to Recovery
By Dr. Jan Mazurek
President Barack Obama today signaled his commitment to put the United States on the road to recovery -- while at the same time tackling our dangerous dependence on oil -- by directing the EPA to reconsider California and 18 other states' request to adopt "tailpipe" standards that will cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases implicated in global climate change.
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DLC | Memo to the New President | January 15, 2009
America's Nuclear Waste and What to Do With It
By Bill Magwood and Mark Ribbing
A candid discussion is needed -- within your
new administration and in the country as
a whole -- about nuclear energy, a non-climate-
changing power source that is actually
capable of generating significant amounts of
energy in the near term. The key to making
nuclear energy a more viable alternative is
the adoption of advanced spent-fuel recycling
techniques to deal with one of nuclear
power's most vexing problems -- the presence
of radioactive waste material.
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PPI | Memo to the New President | January 15, 2009
Establishing a Global Environmental Organization (GEO)
By Ed Gresser and Jan Mazurek
Now is your chance to reestablish America's
leadership as the founding nation of the
environmental movement. A new Global
Environmental Organization, featuring full
American support and participation, would
do exactly that.
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PPI | Memo to the New President | January 15, 2009
Making America the World's Clean-Car Leader
By Jan Mazurek
Mr. President, you should call for replacing CAFE with a new standard based on our real aim -- reducing carbon emissions. This would have a galvanic effect on automakers and help make America the world's leader in clean-car
technology.
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PPI | Memo to the New President | January 15, 2009
Putting Energy in the White House
By Dave Edwards
The United States has the opportunity to be the world's energy innovation leader, creating a cleaner, more secure, and more prosperous future.
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PPI | Memo to the New President | December 12, 2008
Energy Efficiency as Economic Stimulus
By Daniel Sosland, Derek Murrow, and Samuel Krasnow
Energy efficiency -- a huge economic category that includes the design and installation of "green" insulation, lighting, building materials, appliances, vehicles, heating-and-
cooling systems, and countless other technologies -- fits your economic-stimulus needs ideally, with important
additional benefits for the health of our environment and the security of our nation.
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PPI | Policy Report | August 22, 2008
Digging a Deep Hole
By David J. Hayes
This paper investigates the problems with the Bush/Cheney approach to our nation's natural resources and the lasting effect it will have on America.
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | August 6, 2008
New Dem of the Week: Marc Pacheco
Last Friday with final approval from the Senate, the Massachusetts Legislature passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, sponsored by Massachusetts Senator Marc R. Pacheco, aimed at reducing the effects of global warming and climate change in the state.
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | July 30, 2008
New Dem of the Week: Martin O'Malley
Since taking office 18 months ago, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has pushed an impressive environmental agenda from reducing automobile emissions to increasing renewable energy sources.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune | Opinion | July 18, 2008
Our Energy Future: Moving past the drill or not-drill debate
By Jan Mazurek
Americans want a real solution to the nagging question of how to ensure that we have enough energy to keep the economy growing without destroying the environment -- while breaking our dependence on foreign oil.
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | June 25, 2008
New Dem of the Week: Richard Daley
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley understands that we all have a responsibility to protect the environment for future generations. Consequently, the mayor continues to be a leader for all elected officials in undertaking green initiatives.
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PPI | Front & Center | June 11, 2008
Senate Republicans Have Eyes Shut on Climate Security
By Jan Mazurek
The significance of the abortive cap-and-trade debate on the Senate floor was it revealed a GOP still in deep denial about the environmental, security, and economic need to put a price on carbon.
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PPI | Policy Report | May 29, 2008
Finding Common Ground on Cap and Trade
By Jan Mazurek
The world cannot afford continued American foot-dragging on the issue of climate change. Jan Mazurek's latest paper breaks down current (2008) Senate proposals into three fundamental principles of cap-and-trade, showing where common ground can be reached between the bills and proving that it is possible for Congress to move forward with realistic environmental legislation.
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DLC | New Dem Of The Week | March 4, 2008
New Dem of the Week: Ron Menor
A bill introduced by State Senator Ron Menor is currently under consideration in the state's Senate would ban the most energy-intensive forms of old-fashioned bulbs beginning in 2012.
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PPI | Event | February 26, 2008
PPI Debate: Is Atomic Energy A Cure for Climate Change?
The Progressive Policy Institute recently hosted a panel of environmentalists who fall on both sides of the nuclear question, to debate what role -- if any -- nuclear power should play in our nation's future.
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