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Better Climate Investments Through Capital Allocation

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The most common way to judge whether a company or project is helping to tackle climate change is to measure emissions. Has the company reduced its carbon footprint? Will the project add fewer greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere than alternatives? It’s a useful metric, but a limited one.
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Trump Is Trying to Strangle Money-Saving Standards for Appliances

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The Department of Energy proposed sweeping changes to its rules for updating efficiency standards for household appliances on Thursday. If finalized, they would hamstring future administrations from issuing tighter standards that would save consumers money as higher-performing air conditioners, stoves, washing machines, refrigerators, and the like hit the market. While the agency portrayed the move as bringing an end to appliance standards writ large, that is not, in fact, what it is doing.
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The Wind and Solar Tax Credits Are About to Expire. Will They Come Back?

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As many Americans celebrate the country’s 250th birthday this weekend, the clean energy industry will be mourning a death. Independence Day marks the expiration of federal tax credits for wind farms and solar arrays, subsidies that have been in effect in some form or another since 1978. They may not be dead forever. Leading Democrats in Congress are preparing to reinstate the tax credits the next chance they get — whether or not the clean energy industry is asking for it..
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