Topic Archive: Policy and Regulation
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The Boston Globe: As climate warming drives more extreme weather, ‘everything we care about is on the line’
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Boston Real Estate Times: Boston Among North American Cities Best Positioned to Withstand Climate Change Impacts, Reports CBRE
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The Boston Globe: Once seen as opponents to climate action, utilities and the business community are making changes. Is that a sign the tides are turning?
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Canary Media Chart: The US can’t meet its climate goals unless states step up
But if the 24 states with aggressive emissions-reduction targets make good on their pledges, the country could get within striking distance of its 2030 commitment.
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WBUR: How Mass. plans to cut emissions and curb climate change in the next decade
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GRCx Webinar: Leveraging the Inflation Reduction Act to Advance Institutional Climate Action
Large institutional property owners (higher education, health care, cultural institutions) play key roles in advancing climate action. They are major energy users and asset owners, investing in resilience and decarbonization on their own property; they invest in climate “applied R&D” that can be shared with others; and they are respected voices in climate policy deliberations. …
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Climate Beacon Conference
The Climate Beacon Conference is a new signature climate conference for the New England region. Built for and about practitioners of climate change solutions. Focused on opportunities for the region. Exploring and learning from models of thoughtful, successful implementation everywhere. The conference will convene experts and leaders around a common purpose: to share ideas across…
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One Year of the Inflation Reduction Act: A conversation with Ali Zaidi, White House National Climate Advisor
In August 2022, the United States enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allocated billions to grow the clean energy economy, spur private investment, revitalize manufacturing in the U.S., reduce costs for consumers, and address historic inequities and pollution that impact disadvantaged and vulnerable communities across the nation. Now, as the IRA marks its one-year anniversary, the U.S. is…
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The US passed a major climate law one year ago. Here’s how it’s going.
Canary Media kicks off an anniversary series taking stock of the Inflation Reduction Act and its impact during its first year as law.
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USA Today: Why haven’t summer’s extreme heat waves caused any blackouts? Renewable energy is helping.