After COP, It’s Time for a New Climate Strategy November 25, 2025As the 30th Conference of the Parties concludes, we must acknowledge that the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is…
Congress should be a board of directors, not a working group September 19, 2025The recent Senate Finance Committee hearing featuring Secretary Robert Kennedy only further confused those of us seeking guidance on vaccine…
Defying Economics 101 April 10, 2025On his blog, Greg Mankiw quotes Paul Samuelson: I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws, or crafts its advanced…
A Partial Response to “A New Climate Change Reckoning” January 22, 2025We’re grateful that our call for a climate change reckoning elicited so many comments on LinkedIn. Most of the comments…
A New Climate Change Reckoning January 14, 2025Efforts to limit an increase in average global temperature to 1.5°C have failed. Whether we passed that mark in 2024…
Basic Math July 26, 2024The Peter G. Peterson Foundation recently tasked seven Washington-based think tanks from across the political spectrum to develop proposals to…
Observations from CERAWeek March 21, 2024I attended only one day of CERAWeek. However, I left with many observations. Among them, the most prominent was how…
Imagining a New Permitting Reform Process November 1, 2023One thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days is that electricity transmission lines are essential and valuable. Pursuant…
Don’t take distributional analysis of a carbon tax for granted June 21, 2022As Congress’s August recess approaches, Senate Democrats’ timeline to negotiate a climate deal is extremely narrow. To date, their efforts…