A Guide to Green Bank Design
A new Nicholas Institute primer outlines the design elements of a green bank and explores how a green bank might leverage public funds in the Southeast to create a robust market for energy investment.
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BUILD ACT Legislation Vote Expected
The House of Representatives will vote on Build Act legislation soon. A policy brief we published with Duke's Energy Access Project analyzes how the tools and authorities proposed under the act could help respond to energy financing needs.
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Hurricanes Show Benefits, Limits of Dams
The dams at Falls and Jordan lakes worked during Hurricane Florence write the Nicholas Institute's Lauren Patterson and Martin Doyle in The News and Observer, but we shouldn't always count on that.
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Conceptual Model Series
A new Conceptual Model Series by the National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) explains why ecosystem services conceptual models are useful for decision making. The series provides guidance for building models and describes NESP’s efforts to standardize and apply these models with federal partners.
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Recognizing the Clean Air Act’s Potential to Address Climate Change
In the summer of 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final version of its Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants under the Clean Air Act by establishing emissions targets unique to each state. The goal: achieve a 32 percent cut from 2005 levels by 2030. Years before the rule--in the midst of the congressional climate debate--researchers at the Nicholas Institute partnered with other Duke University faculty to explore the practical strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions using existing authority under the Clean Air Act. Learn how these scholars were among the first to recognize that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA would likely require the EPA to take action to regulate such emissions under the 40-year-old rule.