Governor Andrew Cuomo’s establishment of New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) is changing the entire field of energy production and use. Traditional producers of electricity, such as large power plants, are transitioning from burning fossil fuels to creating renewable sources of electric generation. Private companies are becoming electricity producers, and …
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national environmental non-profit organization that has worked “to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends” since its foundation in 1970. NRDC draws on the expertise of lawyers, scientists, and policy advocates, as …
As part of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s (CEP) Master’s program, we students are required to do a 4 to 6-month internship at an organization related to environmental or climate science and policy. This internship gives us the opportunity to apply what we’ve learned in our first-year coursework and …
For the past several decades the US has pursued policies that promote energy independence and both energy and national security. As part of this pursuit, high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technologies were first developed in the late 1940s by Halliburton, and its technological advances after the 1970s have rapidly increased oil …
When the Tesla Model 3 was released and started accepting pre-orders on April 1st, people in the US and Europe went crazy. Three weeks later, there were more than 400,000 pre-orders, according to the official statistics. There are many benefits of driving electric vehicles (EV) such as Tesla: Do not require …
As I’ve mentioned in my previous blogs about working for NYSERDA, New York City is going through a major energy transition. The State and City governments are both looking at ways to drastically change the energy landscape to include more distributed renewable sources of generation and to reduce energy usage, …
For the last nine months, four students at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley have been meeting in a basement office on campus. Their mission: to catalyze a nationwide conversation about state-level action on climate change. Undergraduates Xaver Kandler and Maggie Berke, and environmental policy graduate students Meredith Lavalley and …
Listen to the National Climate Seminar webinar from March 2nd here. We spoke with Rachel Cleetus from the Union of Concerned Scientists on policy issues surrounding renewables, and what states might do in the wake of SCOTUS to meet our Paris pledges.
The Missing Voice on Climate Post-Paris: Students Nationwide ‘Power Dialogs’ in April Will Give College Students A Voice In Their Future Feb. 18, 2016 — In a surprising move, the Supreme Court last week delayed U.S. climate action for a year. Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing following that ruling only …
Hello Power Dialog State Organizers, It is a tumultuous time for the Clean Power Plan. The events of the last few weeks have shaken things up ,and we, at the Power Dialog, are adjusting our strategy. Because the future of the Clean Power Plan is somewhat unclear, it is …
