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Technical Perspectives

New US Trade Policies Can Incentivize Clean Industrial Manufacturing

  • climate policy
  • industry
  • low carbon development
A large ship with stacks of cargo containers sails across the sea.
  • climate policy
  • industry
  • low carbon development

2 Years of Justice40: Integrating Environmental Justice into US Climate Policy

  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
Smokestacks in the background of a neighborhood with rowhouses in Baltimore, MD
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity

How the US Can Speed its Shift to Climate-smart Infrastructure

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • infrastructure
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicle charging station in Austin, TX
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • infrastructure
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles

A Low-Carbon Future in the US Depends on Decarbonizing Petroleum Refineries

  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • carbon removal
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
A landscape view of a U.S. refinery.
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • carbon removal
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels

US Infrastructure Bill Is Good, but Not Enough to Transform the Electricity Grid

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. policy
Two people working on power lines
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. policy
Insights

5 Graphics that Explain Clean Energy Jobs in Rural America

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
Technician installing solar panels
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • climate policy
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • fossil fuels

RELEASE: Analysis Shows Illinois Can Comply with Clean Power Plan Requirements, But Must Reduce Existing Barriers by Passing the Clean Jobs Bill

  • fossil fuels
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

STATEMENT: WRI Response to Supreme Court Stay of Clean Power Plan

  • fossil fuels
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • Energy

6 Steps the Obama Administration Can Take in 2016 to Cement its Climate Legacy

  • Energy
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • climate policy
  • U.S. policy
President Barack Obama works on the State of the Union address with Cody Keenan and Ben Rhodes, in the Oval Office Jan. 11, 2016. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
  • Energy
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • climate policy
  • U.S. policy
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  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • power plants
Initiatives
Three smokestacks