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Blog | Planning for Deep Decarbonization
Alice Kaswan is an Affiliated Scholar with the Georgetown Climate Center, from the University of San Francisco School of Law. This article was originally published by the Center for Progressive Reform, where Kaswan is...
June 13, 2024
Summary for Policymakers | Unlocking Equitable Access to Grants
Options for Federal Policymakers to Improve Matching Fund Requirements This is a Summary for Policymakers of a longer report released by GCC. Read the full report here. As federal policymakers award grant funds to...
May 9, 2024
Hospitals, clinics, and other facilities that serve patients – also known as healthcare delivery organizations (or HDOs) – are pivotal players in the fight against climate change. They care for individuals impacted...
February 8, 2024
Health care delivery organizations – hospitals, clinics, and other institutions that provide health care services to patients – occupy a unique position in the climate fight: they care for people whose health is...
April 12, 2023
Memo: Opportunities for Climate-Related State Investments
This memorandum provides an overview of funding available to states in the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act, and potentially available in the Build Back Better Act, for climate-related investments along with key considerations for states that wish to take full advantage of this historic opportunity.
December 20, 2021
America's Zero Carbon Action Plan unveils a roadmap to eliminating GHG emissions in the U.S. by 2050
What would it take for the United States to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050? America's Zero Carbon Action Plan (ZCAP), released last week, sets out to answer that question. Building on the U.N.'s Sustainable...
November 3, 2020
Issue Brief | Final ACE Rule Raises State Concerns
On June 19, 2019, the Trump Administration released a final regulation—dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE)—that repeals and replaces the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan. This issue brief, prepared...
July 2, 2019
On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, GCC Executive Director Vicki Arroyo testified before the full House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at a hearing entitled "Examining How Federal Infrastructure Policy Could Help Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change." Arroyo provided spoken and written testimony to the Committee, and fielded questions along with the other panelists.
February 28, 2019
Agency Leaders For 14 States Oppose Trump Administration's Clean Power Plan Replacement
Leaders of environment and energy agencies for 14 states issued a unified statement opposing the Trump Administration’s proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan with a framework that fails to reduce carbon pollution from power plants and puts their citizens at risk from the dangerous impacts of climate change. The statement to EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler was facilitated by Georgetown Climate Center.
August 21, 2018
Reducing Transportation Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic: Fuel System Considerations
In support of states interested in learning more about market-based policy options, the Georgetown Climate Center developed Reducing Transportation Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic: Fuel System Considerations to explore technical aspects of a possible regional cap-and-invest policy, as an illustrative example of a market-based approach to a multi-state transportation policy. The paper focuses on two subjects: which fuels might be covered under a policy, and which entities in the transportation fuel supply chain might be responsible for reducing emissions. First published November 12, 2017. Updated July 2018 to include new data and analysis.
July 23, 2018
