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High Risk, Small Reward: Regulators Should Tread Carefully When Reviewing Utility Hydrogen Proposals

EI’s Hadley Tallackson explains why hydrogen is the wrong solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and the power sector.

Congress Is At A Fork In The Road: Fuel Dictators And Climate Change, Or Help Americans Drive Electric

EI’s Anand Gopal explains that passing the electric vehicle provisions Congress is currently considering would help end our dependence on volatile foreign oil supplies and protect consumers from oil price spikes over the long-term.

Russia Crisis Should ‘Supercharge’ Climate Efforts In Build Back Better 2.0: Memo

EI research finds the climate provisions in Build Back Better would cut U.S. oil consumption enough by 2027 to offset the amount of Russian oil imported into the U.S. in 2021.

Climate Science And Financial Risk: Forging A Path To More Climate-Resilient Businesses

EI’s Lana Vali explains that investors are keen to predict and better prepare for future climate-change risks. Yet, to reduce damages caused by climate impacts and make fully informed policy and financial decisions, they need to accurately value those risks.

Biden And Manchin Speak Different Languages On Hydrogen

EI’s Mike O’Boyle explains that green hydrogen is the only type of hydrogen that is scalable and effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Keeping The Momentum Towards Colorado’s Emissions Targets

EI’s Silvio Marcacci explains that Colorado is off to a strong start in setting strong climate targets, but more work is needed to ensure the state doesn’t fall behind.

Hydrogen Blending Will Raise Consumer Costs and Risk Public Health While Barely Reducing Emissions

EI research finds that while hydrogen can be a solution for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like industry and aviation, it’s the wrong tool to cut emissions from buildings and power generation.

Utilities Hyping Hydrogen’s Promise Risk Hitting ‘Dead Ends’ In Climate Fight

EI’ Sara Baldwin explains that direct electrification of homes and buildings is the most straightforward way to decarbonize the building sector, save consumers money, and improve public health, rather than deploying utility hydrogen blending proposals.

Gas Utilities Are Promoting Hydrogen, But It Could Be A Dead End For Consumers And The Climate

EI’s Dan Esposito explains that utility proposals to blend hydrogen with natural gas in their existing distribution network could cost consumers money, increase air pollution and create safety risks while minimally reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Hydrogen Bombshell

EI research finds that hydrogen is not an effective solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, and blending it with natural gas can increase air pollution, consumer costs, and safety risks.

How To Defeat Putin And Save The Planet

EI’s Hal Harvey explains that clean energy is now cheaper than polluting sources, and speeding up the clean energy transition will make the U.S. less beholden to petro-state dictators.

Can Biden Expand Gas And Zero Out Emisions?

EI’s Jeff Rissman explains that a new agreement between the U.S. and the European Union to deliver liquified natural gas contains much ambiguity when it comes to impacts on global greenhouse gas emissions.

Legislating For Climate Justice Starts With Listening

EI’s Sarah Spengeman explains that Illinois’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act is a great example of transformative policymaking because the legislation was crafted through a genuinely inclusive process.

EPA Eyes New Rule For Gas-Fired Power Plants

EI’s Mike O’Boyle explains why hydrogen isn’t a silver-bullet solution for carbon-free electricity.

Oregon’s $4 Billion Economic Opportunity From Ambitious Climate Policy

EI’s Robbie Orvis explains the immense economic benefits Oregon would realize if it continues taking actions to remain a national climate policy leader.

Coal’s Comeback Is Greatly Exaggerated

EI’s Silvio Marcacci explains why increased coal output in 2021 is an outlier rather than a reversal of the fuel’s steep decline.

Biden’s $4.3 Billion Offshore Wind Lease Auction Shows A Once-In-A-Generation Economic Opportunity—But Only Commonsense Policies Can Seize The Potential.

EI’s Greg Alvarez explains why the Biden Administration’s recent record-setting offshore wind lease auction is a huge deal for the future of a much-needed clean energy source.

‘Defining Moment’: How Can The U.S. End Its Dependency On Fossil Fuels?

EI’s Robbie Orvis explains support for wind, solar and electric cars would cut U.S. oil demand enough to offset Russian imports.

3 Ways The U.S. Can Replace Its Russian Oil Imports At The Pump

EI analysis finds tax credits proposed in the Build Back Better Act would reduce oil demand enough to replace half of Russian imports by 2025, and entirely eclipse Russian oil imports by 2027.

What The Bans On Russian Fossil Fuels Actually Mean

EI’s Robbie Orvis explains the only way to protect U.S. consumers from future fossil fuel volatility is to reduce demand, not increase the supply of domestic oil.