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The fossil fuel-fired electric power industry may see few if any benefits if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a U.S. EPA stationary source greenhouse gas permitting program because the agency can regulate heat-trapping gases from new power plants using other means, according to some legal observers. Jonas Monast, director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, comments.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013
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DURHAM, N.C.— Climate diplomats worldwide will gather in Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 11-22 for the 19th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions will be among those at the negotiations.
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Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, discusses unanswered questions about Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, which triggers the regulation of carbon from existing sources. He also weighs in on whether the White House is doing enough to politically sell these regulations in this E&ETV interview.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013
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The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions today released its annual report, which highlights work to help decision makers create timely, effective and economically practical solutions to the world’s critical environmental challenges.
Ocean and Coastal Policy Program Director Linwood Pendleton recently engaged in an online “Office Hour” chat with members of the marine ecosystem community, and offered his insights into the science, the politics, and the economics of developing results-based financing for oceans. Ecosystem Marketplace looks back at the conversation.
Three distinguished Duke alumni discussed new developments in the energy industry and how to combat its most negative affect – climate change – in keynote addresses at the Duke University Energy Conference.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, November 4, 2013
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State and local governments are initiating new policies designed to change behavior and address polluted runoff’s negative economic and health consequences—many in coastal and estuarine areas. This article, penned by Nicholas Institute researchers in Choices Magazine, highlights a small handful of those policies that seek to create incentives to remove pollutants at the source or to take steps to restore the natural ability of watersheds to do so.
In Fiscal Year 2013, the Nicholas Institute appointed two new members to its Board of Advisors, Douglas Wheeler, an environmental lawyer focused on federal regulatory issues, and William Rosenberg, president of E3 Gasification LLC. Wheeler recently discussed his work in the environmental space with the Nicholas Institute.
You have spent decades working on environmental issues. What led you to become interested in this space?
The scaling back of subsidies designed to spur investment in Europe, the low price of natural gas in the United States, and a reduction in wind power spending in China have helped offset new investments elsewhere, according to the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) report, released Tuesday. Billy Pizer, faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute, comments in this Christian Science Monitor article.