Over the past few months, quite a bit of high-level rhetoric has surrounded World Bank funding of coal projects in developing countries. Competing stances on coal will be put to the test in the months ahead as the World Bank attempts to launch a new energy strategy, with a board discussion of the draft strategy next week. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute and associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, pens this post will colleague Scott Morris. 

President Obama's new demand to stop funding overseas coal plants may not necessarily mean an end to America's support for a new coal plant in Kosovo, two top former Treasury officials said yesterday. Billy Pizer, an associate professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and a faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, comments. 

Tomorrow at Georgetown University, President Obama will give a long-awaited speech, on climate change. The issue went dormant during his re-election race, a silence that has engaged many of his supporters on the left. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, comments in this Marketplace story.

Misconceptions about the effect of environmental regulations on the economy and jobs are complicating federal efforts to create sound environmental policies, according to panelists at the 38th Annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, was among the speakers.

Duke University this week announced the first Bass Connections teams of faculty and students who will spend the next year collaborating on key societal issues. The Nicholas Institute's Billy Pizer and Tim Profeta will lead a project on "U.S. Climate Policy Options: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Petroleum Refineries and Steel." 

Stricter Environmental Protection Agency regulations could steer the energy market away from coal, according to a recent Duke study. The Chronicle features the study findings with comments from Nicholas Institute Faculty Fellow Billy Pizer.

Research by Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, helps explain why lower energy costs won't revive United States manufacturing in this Washington Post article. 

The Nicholas Institute’s Billy Pizer was among a panel of leading economic experts on fiscal and environmental policy, convened by Resources for the Future, to discuss the role a carbon tax might play in coming debates about how to reform the U.S. tax code.

A recent episode of NPR’s Planet Money discussed Ecuador’s proposed solution to a national dilemma: the fact that a massive oil discovery and a national park happen to be in the same place. NPR interviewed Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Pizer expands on these comments for Resources for the Future. 

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