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Clearing Roadblocks for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Transportation
Medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) vehicles are outsized contributors to the transportation sector’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other air pollutants. While most MHD vehicles currently run on diesel, zero-emission battery and hydrogen fuel cell options are becoming more available. Although …
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Reaching for 2030: Climate and Energy Policy Priorities
The need to address climate change remains urgent. The passage of historic climate and clean-energy legislation in the past two years—the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA), the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—represents an important …
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Reaching for 2030: Climate and Energy Policy Priorities
The need to address climate change remains urgent. Over the past 15 months, the U.S. Congress has passed meaningful legislation that has the potential to dramatically reduce emissions, and—importantly—allow the United States to lead in accelerating the global transition toward …
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Comments to the SEC Regarding Proposed Regulation S-X Provisions
This document constitutes supplemental comments of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) regarding an alternative to the proposed regulation S-X provisions in the proposed rule by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on climate-related financial disclosures, “The Enhancement …
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Unlocking Precision Agriculture’s Climate Potential
For decades, a precision agriculture (PA) revolution has been ‘just around the corner,’ promising to transform American agriculture. While precision technologies—including variable rate applications, soil sensors, autosteering systems, and others—have significant potential to improve environmental outcomes, they have yet to …
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A Building Block for Climate Action: Reporting on Embodied Emissions
Greenhouse gases can be emitted across various stages of a product’s life cycle, from raw materials and manufacturing to disposal. These emissions are often referred to as a product’s “embodied emissions.” Currently, the most common way of reporting product-level data …
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Engineered Carbon Dioxide Removal: Scalability and Durability
Given the scale of the climate crisis, the short timeframe for action, and insufficient progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, there is broad scientific agreement that large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and approaches are needed to counter …