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Communicate Only Through the Act!

May 05, 2023
Source: Boston Globe
Per this May 2 story, certain Massachusetts AirBnB hosts will get help in installing heat pumps from the app-based rentals service.
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Straight From the Collection

April 07, 2023
Source: Internal Revenue Service
This is the federal guidance for bonus tax credits to projects in areas that depended on fossil fuel production, released on April 4.
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Another Northeastern Bottleneck

March 31, 2023
Source: Bloomberg Law
This March 30 story details tension within the United States' , swirling around whether and how the program should target resources to communities at greatest risk of damage from severe weather and energy poverty.
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There's a Hole in the System

September 09, 2022
Source: Grist
On September 6, this story spotlighted utilities' shoddy record at restoring and sustaining electricity for low-income communities of color.

Explainer: How Do Public Policies Reinforce Building Electrification Financing (Part Two)?

Tyler Clevenger
March 31, 2022
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Each building owner, with a team of investors, needs to work out a particular electrification schedule. Broad public policies, though, can advance new technologies or marketing strategies that can help more buildings go electric sooner. This sequel to our earlier explainer sets out some scalable policies from across the United...
Don't let the sun go down on price reliability, our author urges

(Photo by Don and Suzan Weller, via Flickr Creative Commons.) As the sun sets over Waterford, CT, an expert proposes a price floor in wholesale electricity markets. 

Policy Memo: How We Pay For Free Electricity

Mike Novello
March 15, 2022
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As New England states progress towards decarbonization goals, the electricity spot market will see offers from solar and wind generators that incur no marginal cost. That can harm reliability and put some operators hastily out of business. To retain existing resources and the stability they bring, we need to set...
Patrick Kovarik.Getty Images took this photo for Fashionista.

(Photo by Patrick Kovarik for Getty Images in Fashionista, September 25, 2020.) Chanel once staged a fashion show with wind turbines. The author argues that assertive tax policy can make renewable wardrobes a fashion-forward investment. 

Policy Memo: A Good Look for Apparel's Industrial Decarbonization Path

Elizabeth Rich
January 14, 2022
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The US, as the largest consumer and highest emitter of carbon per capita, bears a critical share of the responsibility to facilitate a transition to sustainable practices. ​​​​​This article lays out the rationale and a pathway for the US to incentivize the apparel industry’s decarbonization. I propose a preferential tariff...
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California Without Collateral? New Buildings Get Mandates, Raise Finance Questions

August 30, 2021
Source: The New York Times
A mandate from the Golden State to hook up new buildings to renewable power opens a path for ideas about financing energy upgrades in the vastly higher stock of buildings already in use.
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Mississippi’s Move toward Long-Term Energy Planning Could Boost Efficiency

June 28, 2019
Source: Energy News Network
Renewables, storage and energy efficiency may get a stronger foothold in Mississippi after utility regulators last week took an unprecedented move to create a formal long-term energy planning process for the electric companies they regulate.
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How California Became Far More Energy-Efficient Than the Rest of the Country

June 12, 2019
Source: Vox
California is decreasing its energy intensity (energy consumed per unit of GDP) and its carbon intensity (carbon emissions per unit of GDP).

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