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WASHINGTON — Tiffany Berger spent more than a decade working at a coal-fired power plant in Coshocton County, Ohio, eventually becoming a unit operator making about $100,000 annually. But in 2020, American Electric Power shut down the plant, and Berger struggled to find a job nearby that offered a comparable salary. She sold her house, moved in with her parents and decided to help run their farm in Newcomerstown, Ohio, about 30 minutes away. They sell some of the corn, beans and beef they...

The Biden administration is trying to increase renewable energy investments in distressed regions, but some are skeptical those measures would be enough to make up for job losses.

New federal funding for green-energy projects from President Joe Biden's landmark 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is worth an estimated $370bln

It is difficult to identify another policy tool that has been either more celebrated or dismissed in recent decades as carbon pricing.  Long heralded by advocates as a silver bullet to confront climate change, it has increasingly been panned by critics as a political non-starter that distracts from serious climate mitigation.  This paper reviews the last half-decade of global climate policy and carbon pricing experience.  It examines significant political challenges to pricing adoption in nat...

A section of the unfinished Mountain Valley Pipeline near Virginia’s Brush Mountain in July 2020. Photo courtesy of Mountain Valley Watch To get the biggest package of clean energy incentives in history, President Biden had to agree to support Senator Joe Manchin's pet project, a fracked-gas pipeline thru West Virginia, that has been bitterly opposed…

“Ohio’s severance taxes are pitiful, and they have meant a severe missed opportunity for Appalachia and for Ohio as a whole”

Danae Hernández-Cortés discusses how California’s cap-and-trade program affects levels of air pollution in environmental justice communities.

Sarah Mills discusses the reasons that rural communities in the Great Lakes region support or oppose local renewable energy projects.

A study to be published soon on levies and taxes paid by the petroleum industry in the United States shows property taxes charged on oil refineries south of the border average several million dollars more than what the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John has been paying.

The Arizona Corporation Commission has unanimously voted development of the massive SunZia Transmission Wind Project can continue. The commission approved amendments to SunZias Certificate of Environmental Compatibility, which completes the Arizona permitting process for the 3,000 megawatt wind project. Adam Stafford, managing senior staff attorney for Western Resource Advocates, said they commend the decision to move forward with the project. ...