Stories: U.S. Climate Action

While Earth Day’s founders couldn’t have predicted it, acting on climate change has become the country’s great unfinished business.

Wind energy needs stable policy support in the United States in order to keep creating jobs.

This summary provides a concise overview of S. 2877, the Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal Act (herein referred to as CLEARA), as introduced by Senators Cantwell and Collins on December 11, 2009.

Federal legislators should look to the states for some key lessons on cap-and-trade.

An explanation of how WRI conducts analysis of climate and energy proposals before the US Congress.

I was surprised to learn from Nordhaus and Shellenberger’s recent piece in Foreign Policy that WRI has magical powers.

WRI President Jonathan Lash previews the key environmental issues to watch in 2010.

How industry has learned to live with (and perhaps even love) cap-and-trade in Europe.

Even the best possible Copenhagen outcome will be a waypoint, not an endpoint.