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What is the RISEE Act?
What is the RISEE Act?

The RISEE Act (Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems Act) was introduced with bipartisan support in 2021 focusing on wind energy.

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CCL’s Big Tent Climate Talk features an electrification discussion with Rewiring America

CCL’s policy expansion into forests, electrification and efficiency, and permitting reform, calls for building relationships in these sectors

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What's the science behind climate change?
The Science of Climate Change

What's the science behind climate change? As the sun heats the earth, it radiates part of that heat back into space as infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases interact with this outgoing heat radiation, keeping the surface temperature higher than it would be without them.

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How to make carbon pricing more popular
How to make carbon pricing more popular

If carbon pricing is worth doing, and experience proves it’s possible, how can we raise the odds of implementing it?

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Building Electrification & Efficiency Breakout Session, December 2022 conference

Legislative strategy session with Rewiring America on electrifying homes and communities and incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act

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Natural Climate Solutions Potential in the USA
CCL provides input to USDA about how to allocate IRA climate-smart agriculture funds

CCL staff recently jumped on the opportunity to provide comments to the USDA related to our healthy forests policy agenda.

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COP27 Report: Citizen participation can unlock a climate-smart future
COP27 Report: Citizen participation can unlock a climate-smart future

COP27 had a long list of challenges to work out. CCI Executive Director Joe Robertson talks about some of the summit's achievements.

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How the IRA Can Bridge the Partisan Divide
How the Inflation Reduction Act can bridge the partisan divide

Despite its partisan origins, the IRA may have a bipartisan legacy, drawing more Republicans into the clean energy discussion.

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Dana Nuccitelli talks Inflation Reduction Act at CCL's December conference
Dana Nuccitelli talks Inflation Reduction Act at CCL’s December conference

CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli reviews all of the clean energy benefits that you can find in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Why taxing bad things is good
Why Taxing Bad Things is Good: ‘Putting a Price’ on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Carbon Emissions

For over a century, economists have advocated taxing goods or services that impose greater costs on society than their price reflects.

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