To Fund Infrastructure, Tax Carbon Emissions
If the midterm elections result in a so-called blue wave, Democrats could lead the push in...
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Cleaning Our Hands of Dirty Pipelines
This article was co-written by Marcus Denton, a second year master's candidate at the LBJ School for Public Affairs, studying social and economic policy. President Obama generates controversy with nearly every one of...
Read MoreBlind Consumption: Realizing the Full Costs of Oil
On January 2, 2002, less than four months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. I did so in part to serve my nation and in part to earn money for college. In the summer of 2006,...
Read MoreLighting Up a Dark Continent
Take a look at a satellite photo of Africa at night. Apart from a few specks of light over the largest cities, the continent is dark. Millions of rural Africans live without any electrical power at all, and the U.N....
Read MoreThe Intersection of Climate Change and Recovery
On Friday, April 8, the U.S. Congress dodged a government shutdown by striking a budget compromise, undoubtedly crushing the dreams of the news outlets gleefully throwing countdown clocks and “what if?!”...
Read MoreOh, Those Onerous Environmental Programs
In this, the age of budget deficits, no political party wants to be caught being the one without any budget cuts to advocate. President Obama handed down a budget that promised to cut troubled programs or programs that...
Read MoreEthiopia’s Got Big Ambitions
In July 2010, Ethiopia’s Environment Protection Authority declared it would have a carbon-neutral economy by 2025. What? An entire country? Carbon neutral? While I know that developing countries emit considerably...
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