On September 8, 2022, the Clean Energy Transition Institute released Community-Defined Decarbonization: Reflecting Rural and Tribal Desires for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition in Washington.

With President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on August 16, we commence a new chapter that will hopefully begin to bend carbon emissions curves downward in the United States and avert a complete climate crisis.

President’s Biden’s recent announcement to invoke the Defense Production Act could expand domestic manufacturing of heat pumps. This blog summarizes the current policy landscape related to heat pumps in the U.S.

This presentation to the K&L Gates Environmental Law Practice Group described the evolution and common findings of deep decarbonization pathways studies that have been performed in the Northwest since 2018.

This guest lecture at Western Washington University’s Institute of Energy Studies provided students with an overview of Washington’s climate and clean energy policies since 2019 and their relationship to what the Washington 2021 State Energy Strategy lists as necessary to reduce the state’s emissions between now and 2030.

A selection of some of the best podcasts and webinars on the latest technical and economic developments in decarbonization that the CETI team engaged with during the first three months of 2022.

After a whirlwind 60 days, Washington’s legislators finished the short 2022 session on March 10. While there were some climate wins, much work remains to be done on buildings and clean materials.

Buy Clean and Buy Fair is a critical legislative tool to reduce carbon emissions from the production of construction materials and promote high labor standards in manufacturing.

The Washington State Building Code Council (SBCC) held its first public hearing on February 25, 2022 about the full suite of proposed changes to the Washington State Energy Code-Commercial 2018 Edition.

Eileen and Poppy Storm of 2050 Institute presented to the Sustainable Path Foundation at their Virtual Grantee Lunch, discussing the Operation 2030: Scaling Building Decarbonization in Washington project.

After more than a decade of public investment in clean energy in the United States, a wealth of studies makes clear that funding clean energy drives broad economic development and job creation.

A new study finds that nearly all major sources of fine particulate air pollution disproportionately affect people of color in the United States.