Energy & Environment
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Once In A Centillion Years
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How much should we spend to avoid a very, very bad event that almost certainly won’t happen?
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Has the Green Metropolis Sprouted?
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The New Yorker scribe details the environmental perks of cities—and why we have a long way to go to escape our manifest destiny of sprawl.
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A SunShot In the Arm: How the Energy Department Is Banking On Renewables
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A chief engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy wants a “world without subsidies.”
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The Car, the Refrigerator, and the World’s Booming Demand for Energy
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The world is flat. Almost. But not quite.
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Keystone Confusion: A Crude Mix of Policy and Politics
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An energy policy analyst walks us through the muck on the Keystone Pipeline.
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When Costs Outweigh Benefits: Accounting for Environmental Externalities
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Beware of net negative value industries.
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Policy Radio | Tom Wolf on the Changing Landscape of Energy Production
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In this week’s episode of Chicago Policy Radio, Claire O’Hanlon sits down with Tom Wolf to talk about where our energy comes from, how the sources of energy in Illinois are changing, and what policymakers can do to help the energy sector.
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Heat and Anxiety: What’s Next for International Climate Change Negotiations?
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Elliot Diringer, a former top environmental adviser to President Bill Clinton, discusses the cloudy future of climate change policy.