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Tag: Green New Deal

Coronavirus relief funds could easily pay to stop the worst of...

David L. McCollum, University of Tennessee CC BY-NDAs of late summer, governments around the world had pledged US$12.2 trillion of relief in response to the...

US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal

Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University These are difficult times in farm country....

Why reducing carbon emissions from cars, trucks and ships will be...

David Keith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Christopher R. Knittel, MIT Sloan School of Management A growing number of cities, states and countries aim to...

Rail travel is cleaner than driving or flying, but will Americans...

Andreas Hoffrichter, Michigan State University Transportation represents a large portion – about 29 percent – of U.S. emissions, and the share has been rising in...

Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building...

Jeremiah Johnson, North Carolina State University and Joseph F. DeCarolis, North Carolina State University Due to their decreasing costs, lithium-ion batteries now dominate a range...

What Green New Deal advocates can learn from the 2009 economic...

Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School Congressional Democrats have introduced a “Green New Deal” proposal that calls for a 10-year national mobilization to curb climate change...

Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...

Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...

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