In the News
02/26/2020
Eye on the Environment | Energy Waste Versus Solid Waste: Don't Wait to Switch Out LED Bulbs
Severin Borenstein in the Ventura County Reporter
01/06/2020
Fossil Fuels are Dead, Long Live Fossil Fuels
Catherine Wolfram in the Energy Institute Blog
12/2/2019
Taking The Pedal Off The Metal
Max Auffhammer in the Energy Institute Blog (featuring paper by Chris Knittel)
9/4/2019
White House to Relax Energy Efficiency Rules for Light Bulbs
Lucas Davis in the New York Times
6/3/2019
How Much Electricity Consumption Is Too Little?
James Bushnell in the Energy Institute Blog
4/22/2019
Unreliable Nature of Solar and Wind Makes Electricity More Expensive, New Study Finds
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
2/28/2019
Hutchins Roundup: Tax incentives for investment, local energy costs, and more
Sébastien Houde and Erica Myers in Brookings Up Front
11/4/2018
How Trump Disrupted Natural-Gas Trade That Could Have Offset The China Trade Deficit
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
10/10/2018
What Does Climate Change Really Cost Society? This Lab is Trying to Find Out
Michael Greenstone in The Guardian
9/28/2018
Star Rating System Gains Currency to Tackle Carbon Footprint
Michael Greenstone in the India Climate Dialogue, Pioneer, Tehelka, Business Standard, and Orissa Post
8/29/2018
The Social Cost of Carbon: Considerations and Disagreements in Climate Economics
Michael Greenstone in the Canada Free Press
8/27/2018
What Are You Getting If You Buy Clean Electricity?
Catherine Wolfram (author) in the Energy Institute Blog
8/15/2018
California's Zero-Carbon Bill Aims To Set Climate Example
Catherine Wolfram in Bloomberg BNA
8/1/2018
Adding Up The Cost Of Climate Change in Lost Lives
Michael Greenstone in the Wall Street Journal
7/23/2018
The 5 Most Important Questions About Carbon Taxes, Answered
Michael Greenstone in Vox and WBFO88.7
7/16/2018
California Is Cutting Greenhouse Gases, But Not From Cars. Can That Change?
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle
7/12/2018
California Already Reached Its 2020 Goal For Cutting Emissions. Now What?
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune
7/11/2018
California Begins To Consider Solar on Commercial Buildings
Severin Borenstein in the Engineering News Record
7/11/2018
California Beats Its 2020 Goals For Cutting Greenhouse Gases
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee
7/6/2018
Why Is The Trump Administration Putting A Tariff on Chinese LEDs?
Lucas Davis in the Tree Hugger
7/5/2018
Year-round Daylight Saving Time? More Dark Mornings Is Just One Downside
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times
7/2/2018
What Does Daylight Saving Time Really Save?
Severin Borenstein (author) in The Energy Institute Blog
6/25/2018
Does Rooftop Solar Help the Distribution System?
Lucas Davis (author), Severin Borenstein, and Meredith Fowlie in The Energy Institute Blog
6/20/2018
For U.S. Business Schools, Leaders Are Hard to Find
Catherine Wolfram in The Wall Street Journal
6/19/2018
The Cost of Filling Up the Tank with Electricity
Severin Borenstein (author) in The Energy Institute Blog
6/4/2018
How Sensors and Mobile Payments Are Getting Indian Women to Use Cleaner Cookstoves
Michael Greenstone in IEEE Spectrum
6/4/2018
Should Rich People Pay Higher Speeding Tickets?
Catherine Wolfram (author) in The Energy Institute Blog
5/31/2018
7 Things to Know about California’s New Solar Panel Policy
Severin Borenstein, Lucas Davis and Catherine Wolfram in California Magazine
5/28/2018
The New Solar Mandate: A Leap Forward Or A Step Back?
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Tribune
5/27/2018
California's Rooftop Decree May Be Hasty. Don't Let The Sun Shine in Just Yet
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee
5/20/2018
Editorial: Requiring Newly Built Houses to Have Solar Panels Will Do More Harm Than Good
Severin Borenstein in The Daily Bruin
5/15/2018
Size-Based Standards Incentivize Automakers to Increase Size of Cars, Study Finds
Koichiro Ito in UChicago News
5/15/2018
California Will Require Solar Panels on All New Homes. That's Not Necessarily a Good Thing.
Severin Borenstein in Vox
5/15/2018
The World Wants Air-Conditioning. That Could Warm the World.
Lucas Davis in The New York Times
5/14/2018
Fuel Economy Standards Are Supersizing Our Vehicles. Ford Scrapping Small Cars Is An Alarm Bell.
Koichiro Ito (author) and James Sallee in Forbes
5/10/2018
California's Solar Roof Law Will Raise Housing And Energy Prices But Do Little to Reduce Emissions
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in Forbes
5/8/2018
Big Data in a Little Package
Lucas Davis (author) and Catherine Wolfram in The Energy Collective
5/2/2018
EPA Tweets About Science That Might Not Pass Pruitt’s Litmus Test
Michael Greenstone in Bloomberg
5/1/2018
Lessons From Rust-Belt Cities That Kept Their Sheen
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
4/29/2018
What Government Inspectors Can Learn From ‘Moneyball’
Michael Greenstone in The Wallstreet Journal
4/26/2018
Will Washington voters warm to a new carbon tax initiative?
Michael Greenstone in The Seattle Times
4/17/2018
How a ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Is Posing a Troubling Health Risk in China’s Cities
Michael Greenstone in Yale Environment 360
4/3/2018
EPA to Overturn Regulations Requiring Cars to Meet Minimum Fuel Economy Standards
Robert Stavins in The News Wheel
4/1/2018
Power plants get 5-star rating in state pollution study
Michael Greenstone in Times of India
3/30/2018
China 'environment census' reveals 50% rise in pollution sources
Michael Greenstone in The Guardian
3/29/2018
E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient
Robert Stavins in The New York Times and Star Tribune
3/26/2018
U.S. Needs to Wake Up to China's Environmental Protection
Michael Greenstone in The Global Times
3/14/2018
For Utilities Trying to Drive Conservation, Mixed Messages May Be Best
Koichiro Ito in Utility Dive
3/12/2018
Does Solving Energy Poverty Help Solve Poverty? Not Quite.
Catherine Wolfram (author) in The Energy Institute Blog
3/12/2018
Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is Winning
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times, Reuters, Hong Kong Free Press, and Xinhua Net
3/12/2018
Thank Colleges for Imminent Carbon Taxes (No Seriously, Thank Them)
Christopher Knittel in Wired
2/26/2018
Trump's Climate Agenda Could Be Stymied In Court By This Obscure Regulatory Tool
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
2/20/2018
Fracking Has Its Costs And Benefits -- The Trick Is Balancing Them
Michael Greenstone (author) in Forbes
2/4/2018
How Much Do Residential Consumers Respond to the Price of Natural Gas?
Maximilian Auffhammer (author) and Kochiro Ito in The Energy Institute Blog
1/29/2018
Are We Promoting the Right Kind of Energy Efficiency?
Catherine Wolfram (author), Michael Greenstone, and Christopher Knittel in The Energy Institute Blog
1/16/2018
Too Good To Be True? Carbon Capture 'Game Changer' Raises Hopes And Questions
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
1/9/2018
It's The Same Story Under Trump As Under Obama: Coal Is Losing Out to Natural Gas
Christopher Knittel in The Washington Post
1/1/2018
California's Carbon Cap Is Not in Jeapordy, Because It's Not Really A Cap
Severin Borenstein and Frank Wolak in The Energy Institute Blog
12/22/2017
10 Charts That Show The Story of Energy in 2017
Michael Greenstone and Christopher Knittel in Forbes
11/27/17
Ethanol Economics, Emissions And The Environment: A JR Briefing
Christopher Knittel in Journalist's Resource
11/16/17
The EPA Is Rewriting the Most Important Numbers in Climate Economics
Michael Greenstone in The Economist
11/15/17
With the Growth of Energy Saving Appliances, Why Aren't Electric Bills Lower?
Lucas Davis in Inside Sources
11/14/17
Why Government Energy-Efficiency Programs Sound Great--But Often Don't Work
E2e in The Wall Street Journal
11/12/17
Delhi's Air Pollution is Triggering a Health Crisis
Michael Greenstone in BBC News, The Telegraph, The Times of India, and The Economic Times
11/6/17
What Climate Change Policy Puts America First?
Meredith Fowlie (author) and Michael Greenstone in The Energy Institute Blog
10/31/17
Do Investments In Energy Efficiency Deliver?
Fiona Burlig (guest), Chris Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant, and Catherine Wolfram on Off the Charts Energy Podcast
10/26/17
2-Vehicle Households More Likely to Choose a Second Car With Worse Gas Mileage, MIT Study Says
Chris Knittel in The Drive
10/26/17
Why ‘Green’ Energy Efficiency Subsidies Fail
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in The Province
10/23/17
Will Global Warming Increase or Decrease U.S. Energy Consumption?
Maximilian Auffhammer, Lucas Davis (author) and Michael Greenstone in The Energy Institute Blog
10/23/17
Trump Administration Wants to Cut Biofuels, Raising Big Worries in Transportation Industry
Chris Knittel in Washington Examiner
10/17/17
Sacramento Nudges People to Use Less Electricity at Peak Hours
Meredith Fowlie and Catherine Wolfram in Bloomberg Business
10/16/17
To Save Coal, Will Trump Kill Electricity Competition?
Lucas Davis and Catherine Wolfram in The Energy Institute Blog
10/11/17
New EPA document reveals sharply lower estimate of the cost of climate change
Michael Greenstone in The Washington Post
10/9/17
U. of C.’s Richard Thaler Wins Nobel for Work in Behavioral Economics
Michael Greenstone in Chicago Sun Times
10/9/17
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Tells Coal Miners He Will Repeal Power Plant Rule Tuesday: ‘The War Against Coal is Over’
Michael Greenstone in The Washington Post
10/8/17
Why Rick Perry's Proposed Subsidies for Coal Fail Economics 101
Maximilian Auffhammer (author) and Meredith Fowlie (author) in SFGate
10/5/17
EPA's Climate Rule Withdrawal Will Include Big Changes to Cost Calculations
Michael Greenstone in Politico
10/3/17
Energy Upgrades Fall Far Short of Projected Savings
Fiona Burlig, Christopher Knittel and Mar Reguant in THE Journal
10/3/17
Poll: Most Americans Want Government to Fight Climate Change
Michael Greenstone in The Hill, UChicago News, The New Indian Express, and Study Finds
10/2/17
Energy Efficiency in Schools -- How Are We Doing?
Catherine Wolfram (author), Fiona Burlig, Christopher Knittel, David Rapson, and Mar Reguant in The Energy Institute Blog
10/1/17
New Ozone Pollution Rules Take Effect Over Objections From Trump's Team
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
9/28/17
Big-League Impact, Sustainable Cellphones, Urbantech Startups, Next Billion Air Conditioners
Michael Greenstone in Impact Alpha
9/27/17
Cutting Energy Use Is One Way Cash-Strapped Schools Can Save. But By How Much?
Fiona Burlig, Christopher Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant and Catherine Wolfram in Forbes and Newswise
9/26/17
Fuel-Efficient Cars Often Paired with Gas Guzzlers, Study Finds
Christopher Knittel and David Rapson in The San Francisco Chronicle, UC Davis News,The Davis Enterprise, SF Gate, and Pacific Standard
9/25/17
The Problem with Demand Response
Catherine Wolfram (author) and Frank Wolak in The Energy Institute Blog
9/24/17
For Utilities Like NV Energy, Rooftop Solar is 'The Tip of the Iceberg'
Severin Borenstein in The Nevada Independent
9/22/17
Improvements in Air Pollution Offer Concrete Benefits in Terms of Longer Lives: Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone in BW Businessworld
9/19/17
A 'Tax' Or 'The Cost of Pollution'? Mass. Debates Surcharge On Fossil Fuels
Christopher Knittel in WBUR
9/19/17
Mapping-Out Climate Change Impacts on Real Life
Michael Greenstone in Yale Climate Connections
9/18/17
Transforming Energy Use in the Wake of a Natural Disaster
Meredith Fowlie in Energy Institute Blog
9/17/17
Toledo Refining Companty Says EPA Regulation Threatens Jobs
Christopher Knittel in The Blade
9/12/17
Living in China Takes 3.5 Years Off Your Life
Michael Greenstone in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Quartz, International Business Times, and South China Morning Post
8/18/17
Leading Scientists, Lawyers Challenge Trump On Social Cost Of Carbon
Michael Greenstone in Ecosystem Marketplace
8/16/17
Amidst Solar Eclipse's Test On Clean Power, One Smart Grid Solution Offers A Cautionary Tale
Koichiro Ito (author) in Forbes
8/3/17
What If We Gave The World Solar Mini-Grids, And The World Didn't Want Them
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
8/3/17
How Markets Beat Other Policies at Tackling the Energy-Climate Change Problem
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
7/16/17
Transformative Changes in World Energy Production and Trade
Michael Greenstone and Christopher Knittel in Econo Monitor
7/15/17
Electric Cars Like Tesla Still Rely on Subsidies, Tax Breaks
Michael Greenstone, Christopher Knittel, and Matthew Kotchen in The Australian
7/12/17
Electric Cars Are the Future? Not So Fast
Michael Greenstone, Christopher Knittel, and Matthew Kotchen in The Wall Street Journal
7/10/17
Environmental Regulation in India Is Flawed, Obama's Former Chief Economic Advisor Argues
Michael Greenstone in Hindustan Times
6/29/17
Aspen: Find Common Ground, Express Empathy to Overcome Climate Skepticism
Michael Greenstone in The Holmes Report
6/26/17
Deadly Heat Wave Spurs Record Electricity Use Across Southwest
Maximilian Auffhammer in The Desert Sun
6/14/17
As Solar Pushes Electricity Prices Negative, 3 Solutions for California’s Power Grid
Catherine Wolfram in Inside Climate News
6/5/17
World Environment Day 2017: Maharashtra Starts Industry Rating to Check Emissions
Michael Greenstone in Firstpost
5/31/17
Analysts: Leaving Climate Deal Likely Wouldn't Add US Jobs
Michael Greenstone in The Associated Press
5/28/17
Colorado Utility Regulators Are Putting a Dollar Value on Carbon Emissions' Impact And Will Ask Xcel to Account for It
Michael Greenstone in The Denver Post
5/25/17
A Little Known Reason Why Consensus on Energy Policy Is Possible
Michael Greenstone in The Wall Street Journal
5/17/17
Trump Efforts to Blunt Climate Tool Likely to Provoke Legal Backlash
Michael Greenstone in MIT Technology Review
5/9/17
Evidence of a Decline in Electricity Use by U.S. Households
Lucas Davis in The Energy Collective
5/9/17
Study: Obama's Energy Efficiency Rules Cost 2.5x More Than They Saved
Michael Greenstone in The Daily Caller
4/19/17
Proving the Negative: The Challenge of Calculating Energy Efficiency
Catherine Wolfram in Environmental Defense Fund Blog
4/7/17
“America First” Doesn’t Cut It When Fighting Global Warming
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in OnEarth Magazine
4/6/17
Study Finds DOE Grant Program's Costs Exceed Benefits
Hunt Allcott, Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in E&E News
4/4/17
What Financial Markets Can Teach Us About Managing Climate Risks
Michael Greenstone (author) in The New York Times
4/3/17
Government of Odisha, University of Chicago Partner for Research and Pilot Project Implementations
Michael Greenstone in Yahoo News
3/30/17
A Second Climate Change Skeptic Is Leaving the EPA and Will Return to Heritage
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in The Washington Post
3/29/17
Trump Thinks the 'Best Available' Data on Climate Chnage Is From 2003
Michael Greenstone in Slate
3/29/17
Even as Trump Scuttles Climate Policy, Diehards Propose New Cap-And-Trade System for Auto Emissions
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in Forbes
3/28/17
Can President Trump Really Bring Back Coal Jobs? The Verdict is Mixed
Christopher Knittel in News Channel Nebraska
3/28/17
A Cap-And-Trade System for Vehicle Emissions?
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in E&E News
3/27/17
Trump Wants to Cut Programs That Help Buildings Save Energy. This New Study Says They Work.
Catherine Wolfram in The Washington Post
3/21/17
Fuel Efficiency: A Tale of Two Standards
Maximilian Auffhammer (author) and Christopher Knittel in The Energy Collective
3/20/17
The Trump Budget's Bizarre Move to Cut the Weatherization of Homes
Meredith Fowlie in The Washington Post
3/15/17
Trump Using Detroit as Stage for Loosening Obama's Fuel Economy Rules
Richard Newell and Robert Stavins in The New York Times
3/15/17
Trump's Plan to Roll Back Obama's Fuel Economy Rules for Cars, Explained
Michael Greenstone in Vox
3/14/17
Regulations Can Be Costly and Inefficient, But That Doesn't Mean We Should Scrap Them
Koichiro Ito and James Sallee in Forbes
3/13/17
What Counts as Success in Energy Efficiency Programs?
Catherine Wolfram (author) in Energy Institute at Haas
3/13/17
A Carbon Dividend Really Can Slow Fossil Fuel Use - Under These Conditions
George Schultz in The Washington Post
3/9/17
Warming Signs: Climate Change May Cost Us Everything
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in Paste Magazine
3/4/17
Latest in Climate Change Debate: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Michael Greenstone in The Houston Chronicle
3/2/17
Grudges and Kludges: Too Much Federal Regulation has Piled Up in America
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in The Economist
3/1/17
Members of Congress Met to Discuss the Costs of Climate Change. They Ended Up Debating Its Existence.
Michael Greenstone in The Washington Post
2/27/17
A Surprising Reason Why Some Energy Efficiency Programs May Not Work, And How to Fix Them
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
2/25/17
High Levels of Particulate Matter Making Lives Shorter: Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone in DNA India
2/22/17
Toppling Energy Illusions
Michael Greenstone, Chris Knittel and Catherine Wolfram in MIT Technology Review
2/20/17
Supply of Green Energy at Affordable Cost is a Challenge: Greenstone
Michael Greenstone in New Indian Express
2/15/17
Fracking Counties Experience More Prosperity and Violent Crime, Study Says
Michael Greenstone, Chris Knittel and George Schultz in The Pennsylvania Record
1/24/17
Reform Advocates See Worrying Hole in Trump Team
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in Energy & Environment News
1/20/17
Donald Trump Threatens to Undermine Key Measure of Climate Policy Success
Michael Greenstone in Business Standard
1/12/17
Scientists Have a New Way to Calculate What Global Warming Costs. Trump's Team Isn't Going to Like It.
Michael Greenstone and Richard Newell in The Washington Post
1/11/17
Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept Any ‘Social Cost of Carbon’?
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in ProPublica
1/9/17
Commentary: Incandescent Light Bulbs Need to Go in Trash Today
Severin Borenstein in East Bay Times
1/5/17
Economic Study Weighs Benefits, Negatives of Living Near Shale Hot Spots
Chris Knittel in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
12/22/16
The Coming Battle Between Economists and the Trump Team Over the True Cost of Climate Change
Michael Greenstone and Cass Sunstein in the Washington Post
12/22/16
Study Suggests Hydraulic Fracturing Boosts Local Economies
Michael Greenstone and Chris Knittel in UChicago News
12/22/16
Fracking Benefits Local Economies, but Drives Up Crime Rates, Study Finds
Chris Knittel in FuelFix
12/22/16
Overall, Fracking Benefits Nearby Communities, Study Finds
Chris Knittel in the Houston Chronicle
12/20/16
10 Charts That Tell The Story Of Energy In 2016
Michael Greenstone, Chris Knittel and Koichiro Ito in Forbes
12/18/16
Policy Uncertainty Discourages Innovation and Hurts the Environment
Lucas Davis (author) and Chris Knittel in The Conversation
12/16/16
Trump Team Targets Changes to Key Metric that Calculates Social Cost of Carbon
Michael Greenstone in Science
12/15/16
Donald Trump Should Know: This Is What Climate Change Costs Us
Michael Greenstone (author) and Cass Sunstein (author) in The New York Times
12/5/16
Prof. Michael Greenstone to Lead Becker Friedman Institute
Michael Greenstone in UChicago News
11/30/16
Nudging Away from Personal Choice
Hunt Allcott, Lucas Davis, and Michael Greenstone in Reg Blog
11/26/16
The Coming Revolution in Transport
Michael Greenstone and Christopher Knittel in The Economist
11/8/16
U.S. Presidential Election: The Future Is at Stake
Michael Greenstone in The Energy Collective
10/31/16
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Uber and Lyft Drivers
Christopher Knittel in Bloomberg , NBC News, CNN Wire, Seeker , and The Washington Post
10/26/16
India’s Air-Conditioning and Climate Change Quandary
Michael Greenstone (author) in The New York Times
10/14/16
Researchers Have Debunked One of Our Most Basic Assumptions About How the World Works
Michael Greenstone in The Washington Post
10/07/16
Legal Challenge To Clean Power Plan Will Have Global Ramifications
Chris Knittel (author) in Huffington Post
10/07/16
Opposition to Washington’s Historic Carbon Tax Initiative is Coming from the Unlikeliest of Sources
Chris Knittel in ThinkProgress
09/28/16
Could a President Trump Reverse Obama's Regulations on 'Day One'?
Michael Greenstone in CNN
09/27/16
Americans Are Addicted to Oil: Gasoline Consumption is Higher than Ever Before
Lucas Davis in Salon
09/26/16
Addicted to Oil: US Gasoline Consumption is Higher than Ever
Lucas Davis in The Conversation
09/20/16
Your Air Conditioner and Refrigerator are Killing the Climate: What Are the Alternatives?
Lucas Davis in Alternet
09/20/16
New Research Discovers Vast Impact on Lifespan from China's Pollution
Michael Greenstone in Delmarva Public Radio
09/20/16
Americans Want to Combat Climate Change. But How Much Will They Pay?
Michael Greenstone in The Christian Science Monitor
09/19/16
Learning to Fly: How Technology Can Help Solve the 'Duck Curve'
Meredith Fowlie in Midwest Energy News
09/19/16
Survey Finds Majority of Americans are Willing to Pay for Climate Action
Michael Greenstone in Climate Action
09/18/16
More are Willing to Pay to Fight Climate Change, Survey Says
Michael Greenstone in USA Today
09/16/16
Americans Divided on How Much to Spend to Battle Climate Change
Michael Greenstone in Engadget
09/15/16
New Poll: Most Americans Want Government to Combat Climate Change, But Divided on Paying for Solutions
Michael Greenstone in Science Blog
09/15/16
Americans Appear Willing to Pay for a Carbon Tax Policy
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
09/14/16
How Much Will Americans Pay to Battle Climate Change? Not Much
Michael Greenstone in The Wall Street Journal
09/11/16
Study: The Stricter the Emissions Testing Requirements in the EU, the More Testing Results Diverged from Real-world Results
James Sallee in Clean Technica
08/13/16
Carbon-tax Initiative Backers Press Campaign Despite Green Opposition
Chris Knittel in The Seattle Times
08/11/16
Natural Gas Appears to Work Best when Wind, Solar Power Lags
Chris Knittel in Santa Fe, New Mexican
08/10/16
‘Cheaper’ Energy Still Unaffordable to Rural Households
Catherine Wolfram in The Star, Kenya
08/07/16
Study: Electric Vehicles Don’t Have a Chance Unless Oil Prices Increase 1,000 Percent
Michael Greenstone and Chris Knittel in BOE Report
08/01/16
Evaluating Evaluations – Energy Efficiency in California
The E2e Project in The Energy Institute Blog
07/31/16
Interior Department Steps in to Alter Coal Leasing on Public Land
Michael Greenstone in KWBU
07/26/16
Fossil Fuels Have Had an Aeon’s Head Start
Lucas Davis, Michael Greenstone, and Chris Knittel in Financial Times
07/24/16
The Global Impact of Air Conditioning: Big and Getting Bigger
Lucas Davis in The Conversation
07/08/16
A Lifetime Later, a Smog Attack's Full Cost is Seen
Michael Greenstone in NPR — Marketplace
06/27/16
Tata Centre for Development to Address India's Three Crucial Challenges
Michael Greenstone in Forbes India
06/23/16
White House: Raising Federal Royalties will Save GHGs
Michael Greenstone in E&E - Climate Wire
06/23/16
How Unleashing Energy Data Promises a Future of Fewer Kilowatts
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
06/20/16
Are Global Goals to End Energy Poverty by 2030 Doomed with a Centralized Approach?
Catherine Wolfram in Greentech Media
05/13/16
Let's Not Settle for Off-Grid Solar Because It's 'Good Enough' for the Energy Poor
Catherine Wolfram in Greentech Media
05/12/16
Europe Trails U.S. in Cutting Air Pollution, W.H.O Says
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
05/06/16
Column: Don't Be Fooled. CO2 Emissions Still Tied to Economic Growth
Robert Stavins in PBS Newshour
04/04/16
Why Does the Media Ignore Grid-Scale Solar?
Catherine Wolfram (author) in The Energy Institute Blog
04/03/16
How Mexico City Plans to Fight Air Pollution
Lucas Davis in The Christian Science Monitor & Vox
04/03/16
Alarmists Won't Like It, but Fossil Fuel Supply is Abundant
Michael Greenstone & Christopher Knittel in The Oklahoman
03/28/16
Overlooked Tool to Fight Climate Change: A Tweak in Fuel Standards
Michael Greenstone (author) in The New York Times
03/24/16
As Electric Cars Stall, A Move To Greener Trucks and Buses
Christopher Knittel and James Sallee in Yale Environment 360
03/14/16
A Questionable Future for Electric Vehicles
Christopher Knittel & Michael Greenstone in e21 (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)
03/10/16
Prime Minister Trudeau Hints at Bold Climate Steps for Canada after Paris
Christopher Knittel in Energy Priorities
03/04/16
We Can't Rely On Market Forces Alone To Fix Climate Change
Christopher Knittel & Michael Greenstone in FastCo
03/01/16
Does a Carbon Tax Work? Ask British Columbia
Christopher Knittel & Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
02/24/16
Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels?
Michael Greenstone and Chris Knittel in MIT News and Clean Technica
02/14/16
How Much Electricity Does a Bottle of Beer Take? Israeli Start-up Lightapp Knows
Michael Greenstone, Chris Knittel, and Catherine Wolfram in Times of Israel
02/10/16
Experts Expressed Cautious Optimism for New Climate Deal
Michael Greenstone in Medill Reports
02/04/16
Has the U.S. Really Reached an Epic Turning Point in Energy?
Michael Greenstone and Chris Knittel in National Geographic, Clean Technica, and Greentech Media
01/27/16
How Do We Define Climate Pollution's Cost to Society?
Michael Greenstone in High Country News
01/22/16
Five Things You Should Know About President Obama's Coal Leasing Moratorium
Michael Greenstone in The Huffington Post
01/20/16
Three Reasons Why ‘Real’ Electricity Still Comes From the Grid
Catherine Wolfram in Greentech Media & The Energy Institute Blog
01/19/16
Pollutants Reduced by 18 per cent on Odd-Even Days: US-Based Study
Michael Greenstone in The Economic Times, The Financial Express, and NDTV
01/18/16
Even Talking About Reducing Drug Prices Can Reduce Drug Prices
Catherine Wolfram in The New York Times
01/18/16
Climate Change: Obama Administration Halts New Coal Mining Leases On Public Land
Michael Greenstone in The Indian Republic
12/16/15
After Paris Climate Talks, US Still Far from a Clean Energy Revolution, Green Jobs Boom
Michael Greenstone in International Business Times
12/01/15
There’s a Formula for Deciding When to Extract Fossil Fuels
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
11/24/15
Clean Energy Tax Credits Mostly Go to the Affluent. Is There a Better Way?
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in Vox
11/23/15
Vehicle Emissions Testing Where the Rubber Hits the Road
Meredith Fowlie in The Energy Institute Blog
11/22/15
The Looming Battle for Clean Data
Maximilian Auffhammer and Lucas Davis in The Boston Globe
11/19/15
Prof. Severin Borenstein Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Severin Borenstein in UC Berkeley News
11/11/15
On the Keystone Pipeline, President Obama Missed an Opportunity
Michael Greenstone in The Wall Street Journal
11/10/15
These Could Be the First U.S. States to Tax Carbon — and Give Their Residents a Nice Paycheck
Christopher Knittel in The Washington Post
11/10/15
Carbon Taxes Circle the Ballot in Several States
Christopher Knittel in Santa Fe New Mexican
10/28/15
UChicago, Delhi Government to Launch Partnership to Clean Delhi's Environment
Michael Greenstone in UChicago News
10/21/15
The Countries Where Global Warming Will Shrink Bank Accounts
Michael Greenstone in PBS Newshour
10/14/15
Why Natural Gas is Catching Up to Coal in Powering U.S. Homes
Chris Knittel in The Washington Post
10/06/15
For Government that Works, Call in the Auditors
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in The New York Times
10/06/15
Are the Benefits to the Weatherization Assistance Program's Energy Efficiency Investments Four Times the Costs?
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in The Energy Institute Blog
10/02/15
Polluted Stew Remains Over Northeast Ohio Despite Improvements in Air Quality: NOACA Report
Michael Greenstone in Cleveland.com
09/29/15
How Many Deaths Did Volkswagen’s Deception Cause in the U.S.?
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
09/24/15
The Connection Between Cleaner Air and Longer Lives
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
09/24/15
The Wealthiest Households Claim 90% of Tax Credits for Buying Electric Cars
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in The Wall Street Journal
09/24/15
Chris Knittel of MIT on Hillary's Opposition of Keystone
Chris Knittel in the Boston.com Morning Show
09/22/15
The Key to a Politically Appropriate Climate Policy is Not Cost. MIT Study Finds it's Lobbying
Christopher Knittel in Energy & Environment News
09/21/15
VW’s Deepwater Horizon?
Maximilian Auffhammer and Michael Greenstone in The Energy Institute Blog
09/14/15
Are We Too Fixated on Rural Electrification?
Catherine Wolfram in The Energy Institute Blog
09/14/15
Network Power: Faculty and Alumni Win $5M Energy-Efficiency Grant
Catherine Wolfram in BerkeleyHaas Magazine
09/11/15
Pattern of Winners and Losers Explains US Policy on Fuel Subsidies
Chris Knittel in Phys.org and MIT News
09/09/15
September Heat Wave Becomes Official Wednesday, How Are You Coping?
Michael Greenstone in Boston.com
09/01/15
Want Your Energy Efficiency Program to Succeed? Aim it at Poor People
Koichiro Ito in Grist and Energy Live News
08/25/15
Opinion: Notley Cheers Oilsands as She Plans Future Without it
The E2e Project in The Vancouver Sun
08/24/15
Report: Federal Weatherization Assistance Program Provides Benefits Four Times Its Costs
The E2e Project in NRDC Blog
08/18/15
Calif. Program Subsidized More Efficient Energy Use for Both Rich and Poor. Guess Whose Habits Didn't Change?
Koichiro Ito and Michael Greenstone in E & E Climate Wire
08/13/15
Economists, Advocates Square Off Over Efficiency
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in E & E Publishing
08/10/15
If Someone Replaced Your Car with a Prius, Would You Drive More?
Catherine Wolfram and Steve Puller in The Energy Institute Blog
08/04/15
Obama Builds Legacy on Climate Change with EPA Clean Power Plan
Michael Greenstone in The Conversation
07/31/15
'Empathy,' not Incentives or Environmentalism, Sells Solar Power in India
Catherine Wolfram in E & E Publishing
07/14/15
Report: Regional Carbon Reduction Program Yielding Benefits for Maine
Susan Tierney in Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Power Engineering
07/13/15
Growth in the ‘Gig Economy’ Fuels Work Force Anxieties
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
07/09/15
Two Weeks On, a "WAP-Up" on that E2e Weatherization Study
Michael Greenstone, Catherine Wolfram, Meredith Fowlie, and Sebastién Houde in NRDC Blog
07/08/15
New DOE Rules on Home Furnaces Could See Savings Go Up in Smoke
Michael Greenstone and Hunt Allcott in Watchdog
07/08/15
Solving the Energy Efficiency Quandary
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in MIT Technology Review
07/07/15
Do Residential Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver?
Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram in The Energy Institute Blog
07/06/15
National Grid & Opower Help Customers Save Over $70 Million on Energy Bills
Daniel Yates in Market Watch
06/30/15
Is Uncle Sam Baking The Books On Energy Efficiency?
Michael Greenstone, Catherine Wolfram, and Meredith Fowlie in Forbes
06/30/15
Does Home Weatherization Pay for Itself?
Michael Greenstone, Catherine Wolfram, and Meredith Fowlie in On Earth
06/26/15
Energy Efficiency Can Be Incredibly Valuable — But We Do Need to Measure It Properly
Michael Greenstone in Vox
06/23/15
Home Efficiency Upgrades Fall Short, Don't Pay: Study
Michael Greenstone, Catherine Wolfram, and Meredith Fowlie in Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vox, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Phys.org, Energy & Environment News, Fox, ABC, and CNN
06/17/15
Pope's Climate Change Encyclical Could Sway U.S. Opinion: Scientists
Michael Greenstone in Reuters
06/16/15
When is an Energy Efficiency Offer Too Good to Turn Down?
Catherine Wolfram & E2e in GreenBiz
06/15/15
Is the U.S. Investing Enough in Electricity Grid Reliability?
Catherine Wolfram in The Energy Institute Blog
06/03/15
Most States on Track to Meet Clean Power Plan 2020 Benchmarks
Susan Tierney in Union of Concerned Scientists
05/22/15
Rising Aircon Use to Increase Energy Costs in Developing World
Lucas Davis in Science and Development Network
05/18/15
Why EPA’s Alleged ‘War on Coal’ May Actually Be a War on Wasting Energy
Susan Tierney in The Washington Post
04/27/15
Air Conditioning and Global Energy Demand
Lucas Davis in The Washington Post, Business Insider, The Verge, phys.org, and The Energy Institute Blog
04/21/15
Carbon Control: Is Emissions Trading Working in the Northeast?
Robert Stavins in City & State
04/12/15
States Ignoring Mitch McConnell, Working On Clean Power Plan: EPA
Michael Greenstone in Forbes
04/10/15
State Efforts to Implement Climate Legislation
Michael Greenstone in The New Republic (video)
04/08/15
If We Dig Out All Our Fossil Fuels, Here’s How Hot We Can Expect It to Get
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
04/06/15
For Energy (and Water) Conservation, Moral Suasion is No Substitute for Getting the Prices Right
Meredith Fowlie in Energy Institute Blog
03/31/15
Air Pollution: We Haven’t Seen the Stars in a While
Michael Greenstone in The Hindustan Times
03/09/15
University of Chicago Expanding Labs to Tackle Urban Issues
Michael Greenstone in The Chicago Tribune and UChicago News
03/02/15
Why Did Apple Pay So Much for 130 Megawatts of PV From First Solar?
Catherine Wolfram in Greentech Media
02/21/15
Polluted Air Cuts Years Off Lives of Millions in India, Study Finds
Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Discovery News, The International Business Times, The Times of India, and The Economic Times
02/20/15
3 Reasons Why Americans Should Be Cautious of $2 Gas Prices
Christopher Knittel in the Huffington Post
02/18/15
This Time Is Different: Why Optimism About a 2015 Climate Change Agreement is Growing
Michael Greenstone in U.S. News and World Report
02/13/15
Surprisingly, a Voluntary Climate Treaty Could Actually Work
Michael Greenstone in The New York Times
02/01/15
University Group Seeks Change in Cost Estimate on Carbon Emissions
Michael Greenstone in 91.9 WUIS
01/30/15
The Future of Energy and Climate Change in Emerging Economies
Michael Greenstone in UChicago News
01/29/15
Indian State Adopts Environmental Audit Reforms After Study Shows They Reduce Pollution
Michael Greenstone, Nick Ryan in UChicago News, J-PAL News
01/29/15
Why 50 Million Smart Meters Still Haven’t Fixed America’s Energy Habits
Katrina Jessoe, David Rapson, and Sebastien Houde in Washington Post
01/28/15
Oil Price Drop May Threaten to Undercut Obama's Clean Energy Legacy
Michael Greenstone in Auto News, Auto World News
01/26/15
Can Mammograms Teach Us Something Useful about Energy Efficiency?
Catherine Wolfram in Energy Institute Blog
01/24/15
Obama and Modi Talk Climate in World’s most Polluted City
Michael Greenstone in McClatchyDC
01/21/15
State of the Union 2015: A Closer Look at the President's Ambitious Agenda
Michael Greenstone in The Conversation
01/20/15
Raising the Gas Tax Isn’t about Politics, It’s about Economics
Michael Greenstone in The Hill (Blog)
01/12/15
Energy Efficiency is a Tough Sell- Even When it is “Free”!
Meredith Fowlie in Energy Institute Blog
01/02/15
Why Gas Feels Cheap - and Why It's Not, Historically Speaking
Chris Knittel in The Wall Street Journal