Clean Energy Finance Forum

Our partners at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University turn up more evidence that American voters demand forward motion on carbon reduction. Their new voter survey finds two-thirds of respondents convinced that legislators should prioritize investment in fossil-free energy.

A report from the Rocky Mountain Institute and General Motors pushes for support to develop technologies in, and to help drivers buy vehicles fitted for, electric Ubers and Lyfts and Vias and such.

Residents in Springfield, Massachusetts question the "green" light for a biomass facility in an area where many live with asthma.

The United Kingdom's promising to phase out internal-combustion-engine vehicles, which means manufacture of car batteries needs to ramp - and, in the town of Blyth, already has. This credulous December 10 article sizes up plans to make batteries in a Northern town- in part thanks to the robust electric grid there.

Surveying China's plan to send carbon emissions way down, the IEA forecasts broader uptake of carbon capture, hydrogen and other decarbonization tools on the strength of China's manufacturing.

Two YSE students pick up on a pledge in Joe Biden's climate plan, spelling out how it can reduce asthma and emissions by removing tons of pollution from the air each school day. (This depends on getting schools safely fully open again...)

Where oil has flowed for decades, plunges in oil price can't make fossil fuels outshine solar in terms of cost.