August 30, 2012
A Policy Tweak to Help Bring Lights to 700 Million People Stuck in the Dark (Without Baking the Planet)
Let’s not be the fat guy bully in the room. I’ll explain.
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April 18, 2012
Coming Clean on Cookstoves
The Washington Post on Monday highlighted the latest results from a randomized study of a development intervention by the folks at MIT. This time, the subject of the study was clean cookstoves. As the Post noted, that’s timely because Hillary Clinton has been a strong advocate, backing the
July 17, 2008
President Bush Should Order the EPA to Waive the Ethanol Mandate Next Week
Governor Rick Perry of Texas, representing a major livestock-producing state hammered by rising feed costs, has petitioned the Environmental Policy Agency to suspend half of the mandated level for blending ethanol in gasoline. The EPA has the authority under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to suspend all or part of the mandate for up to a year if there is a "significant renewable feedstock disruption or other market circumstance" and the administrator is supposed to respond to Governor Perry's petition by July 24.
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