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New from PPI | July 15, 2009
PPI Policy Paper: "The Sun Won't Set on Solar"
The Hill recently ran a shortened version of this paper as an op-ed;
here is the full policy paper, by Los Angeles-based energy and environment writer Chris Warren.
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Policy Report | July 15, 2009
The Sun Won't Set on Solar
By Chris Warren
Not long ago, solar energy was the
fashionable choice for investors and
policymakers seeking the most viable
successor to carbon-based energy sources.
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New from PPI | May 22, 2009
In the House, Making History on Climate Policy
By Jan Mazurek
Hurdles await.
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Front & Center | May 19, 2009
Dr. Jan Mazurek - Clean Growth: Following California's Carbon Lead
By Dr. Jan Mazurek
By requiring Detroit to build cars and light trucks that break our unhealthy oil addiction, President Obama has helped end the vicious cycle of oil price spikes that spell economic doom, making Americans safer, healthier, and stronger.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Policy Report | March 6, 2007
Plugging Into The Grid
By Joseph Romm & Peter Fox-Penner
If government takes a few smart steps to help spur their commercialization, plug-in hybrids could easily become an important part of American's energy future.
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Policy Report | March 6, 2007
The Promise of Biofuels
By David J. Hayes, Roger Ballentine, & Jan Mazurek
Clean burning motor fuels made from homegrown crops hold the potential not just to help break America's oil addiction and curb its greenhouse gas emissions, but also to revitalize its agricultural sector.
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Policy Report | October 16, 2006
A Progressive Energy Platform
By Jan Mazurek, Roger Ballentine, Randolph Court and Will Marshall
It is time for progressives to fill the leadership void on energy policy by offering a realistic plan that begins in the here and now and leads quickly to a clean energy future.
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Blueprint Magazine | July 22, 2006
After Oil
By Jan Mazurek
America invented the modern oil economy. Now it's time to invent a post-oil future. Here's how to start.
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Front & Center | April 27, 2006
Running on Empty
By Jan Mazurek
This administration has had six years to formulate an energy policy that will accelerate America's shift from oil to new, "clean energy" sources and technologies. When it comes to energy independence, the needle on the administration's tank is clearly pushing empty.
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Front & Center | October 18, 2005
High Gas Prices? Blame OPEC, Not EPA
By Ronald E. Minsk
House Republicans recently passed a bill that would hack away at environmental regulations in the name of increasing U.S. oil refining capacity. But that proposed cure rests on a fundamental misdiagnosis of the problem. The Senate should own up to that reality and reject the bill.
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Front & Center | May 27, 2004
The High Price of U.S. Oil Addiction
By Ronald E. Minsk
The primary causes of higher oil prices are Saudi decisions to constrain output in the face of growing demand for oil and President Bush's failure to successfully engage with OPEC in order to ensure that it provided enough oil to the market to support moderate prices.
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Blueprint Magazine | March 23, 2004
Tailpipe Revolution
By Roger Ballentine and Jan Mazurek
Stop stalling! Instead of haggling over CAFE standards and a distant hydrogen future, we should use strong market incentives like tailpipe emissions trading to put more clean cars on the road today.
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Policy Report | March 19, 2004
Clean Cars: Kicking America's Oil Habit
By Roger Ballentine and Jan Mazurek
With bold and practical changes, we can meet the challenges of the decade at hand while building a better future in decades to come.
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