Long-Term Carbon Policy: The Great Swap
In the past two decades, the mounting risks posed by climate change have motivated businesses, cities, states, national governments, and the international community to pledge to take action to reduce...
View ArticlePress Release: New PPI Report Proposes Grand Political Bargain on Climate &...
WASHINGTON—The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) today released a new policy report, “Long-Term Carbon Pricing: The Great Swap,” at a packed public forum featuring a cross-partisan roundtable...
View ArticleBledsoe for LA Times: As Trump ignores record temperatures, taxpayers are...
Global temperatures were the highest on record in 2016 for the third straight year, scientists at NASA and elsewhere reported last week. This is just the latest proof of rapid climate change that has...
View ArticleMarshall & Aldy for Democracy Journal, “The Great Swap”
Does a deal now gaining momentum across the aisle actually have the potential to break the stalemate on climate change? Is Donald Trump serious about keeping an “open mind” on climate change?...
View ArticleAs carbon emissions rise, so will the “social costs of carbon”
President Trump’s “open mind” on climate change seems to be closing. He’s preparing an executive order to kill Obama administration rules aimed at curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. It is almost as...
View ArticleTrump’s climate rollback could undermine our promises to the rest of the world
Trump’s executive order eviscerating Obama’s climate plan could leave the U.S. isolated as other countries push forward to curb emissions, observers of international climate negotiations said. Major...
View ArticleAldy Testimony for the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Statement of Joseph E. Aldy Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Fellow, Resources for the Future Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research Senior...
View ArticleBledsoe for the Economist, “Whither the world after America’s retreat?”
…The risks posed by a changing climate require action. Last year was the hottest since records began, and 16 of the 17 warmest years have occurred since 2001. Sea level is rising and the polar regions...
View ArticleMarshall & Bledsoe for Real Clear Energy, “Colorado Blazes Low-Emissions,...
Donald Trump made political hay in Appalachian and industrial states by running as an ardent booster of coal. Yet what’s really powered America’s remarkable energy boom over the last decade is shale...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “US can boost gas exports, cut global emissions in one...
Infamously, Donald Trump has called climate change a hoax, but the rest of the world knows better. In fact, the main reason European and Asian nations are interested in importing U.S. natural gas is to...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “High-paying energy jobs are key for Democrats in 2018”
Clean-energy policies championed by Democrats over the last decade have helped create millions of high-paying energy jobs for American workers. And innovative Democratic policies going forward can help...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “Harvey, Irma show the skyrocketing costs of climate...
Even as Congress passed $15 billion in initial funding for Hurricane Harvey relief, Americans were glued to their TVs watching Hurricane Irma, the strongest-ever Atlantic storm, bear down on Florida,...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “Trump is isolated on climate. Ignore him at...
As ministers from 195 countries travel to Bonn, Germany for annual climate negotiations to begin Nov. 6, momentous decisions await. Convincing major-emitting nations to increase the pace of emissions...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “Solar case shows climate protection requires...
Responses to President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese solar panels fall into two general camps. One holds that Chinese solar manufacturing subsidies are so egregious as to require U.S....
View Article#TBT: Examining U.S.-China Relations in Energy Policy
This week, PPI Strategic Adviser Paul Bledsoe published a piece for The Hill exploring the dynamic between the United States and China when it comes to solar energy. According to Bledsoe, an...
View ArticleBledsoe for USA Today, “Democrats must embrace shale gas boom to win...
Democrats don’t have enough power to shape climate change policy. They can win the midterm elections if they embrace the shale oil and gas boom and their role in it. Millions of Americans are rightly...
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Bledsoe for The New York Times, “Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Rollbacks Will Hurt...
President Trump met with auto industry executives at the White House on Friday, arguing for his planned rollback of fuel efficiency and emissions standards, and telling them he wanted them to build...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “Keeping Pruitt could cost GOP Congress, Trump in the...
Despite repeated and flagrant abuses of taxpayer trust and sweetheart deals from energy lobbyists, any of which would have doomed previous cabinet members, embattled Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleBledsoe for The Hill, “Trump’s coal fixation will harm Americans’ health and...
Earlier this month, President Trump ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to intervene in electricity markets to prop up failing coal power plants, falsely claiming the effort was needed to protect...
View ArticleBledsoe & Ritz for The Hill, “Democrats must bridge the generational divide...
Amid the daily drama of President Trump’s tweets and scandals, it can be hard to focus on the most important issues for our future. An unfortunate consequence of this purposeful turmoil is that few...
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