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to be fair, Robinson Meyer is on it heatmap.news/politics/trump…

I wrote about how we were finally helping fossil fuel-reliant communities build more resilient local economies. And now we're taking that support away. heatmap.news/ideas/trump-bu…

“Communities that depend on fossil fuel industries will be vulnerable to severe economic shocks when demand for their products eventually declines,” writes Noah Kaufman. How Trump’s budget bill will wreck fossil fuel communities: heatmap.news/ideas/trump-bu…

ICYMI, I wrote about ending federal support for regional economic development, including diversification efforts in fossil fuel communities. A fossil fuel behemoth like the USA will not decarbonize if doing so will wreck local economies. heatmap.news/ideas/trump-bu…

Paying to capture CO2 is a tough sell to people who aren't worried about CO2 emissions energy.gov/articles/secre…

In Heatmap News, CGEP senior research scholar Noah Kaufman warns that proposed federal budget cuts under former President Trump's platform would dismantle crucial economic support for coal towns, oil boomtowns, and other fossil fuel–dependent regions. heatmap.news/ideas/trump-bu…

As always, it's frustrating to see people who don't understand climate econ models try to use them to declare climate change a small big deal. But climate economists enable this practice by using models to address questions they aren't remotely qualified to answer.

they have such different debates in the UK...

The importance of the Inflation Reduction Act was that, for the first time, if you squinted hard enough, you could make out a national climate strategy from the world's largest economy and largest historical emitter. That’s gone now.

I'm back and with a promotion to Carbon Upper Middle Management I'll be running the Carbon Management Research Initiative at Center on Global Energy Policy as a Global Fellow Thank you Jason Bordoff and team for bringing me on

The culmination of another epic failure of the US climate policy movement. There are plenty of countries and states have reasonable climate policy strategies. Not the USA.

To be clear I thought IRA-style climate policy was very much worth a shot, on the theory that it would be popular and durable. But it didn’t work.

Lots of thoughtful disagreement to this, which is great. I like the optimism too. But if you are looking at the US climate policy situation right now and concluding things are working out ok…I don’t know what to tell you. We’ve got to learn from failures.