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Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandates Accelerate EVs
ZEV mandates are a technology-forcing policy, encouraging automakers to produce cars with longer ranges, as vehicles sold with longer electric ranges earn more...
Nicole Larson
9/3/2019
Blog
Jay Inslee Set the Standard for Presidential Candidate Climate Action
As someone who spends her waking hours working to accelerate the clean energy transition, I disagree strongly with critics who suggest that Washington Governor...
Eileen V. Quigley
8/29/2019
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Implementing Deep Decarbonization in the Northwest
This report aims to represent potential energy futures in enough technical detail to be used as blueprints to develop a future of the Northwest’s choosing.
Eileen V. Quigley
8/26/2019
Blog
Incentivizing Electric Vehicle Adoption
Policy incentives encouraging people to drive electric vehicles (EVs) are increasing as policymakers tackle the challenge of reducing transportation emissions to address growing concerns about climate change.
Nicole Larson
8/19/2019
Blog
Deep Decarbonization Cost Assessment
The scope of costs in "Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future in the Northwest" is limited to energy system costs, which represent the annual cost of producing, distributing, and consuming energy.
Eileen V. Quigley
7/29/2019
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Eight Decarbonization Scenarios
Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest explores multiple pathways for decarbonizing the region’s energy system, while addressing policy questions and potential implementation challenges in ...
Eileen V. Quigley
7/15/2019
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Pathways Study Methodology and Emissions Target
Prior to commissioning Meeting the Challenge of Our Time, the Clean Energy Transition Institute convened a Deep Decarbonization Pathways Working Group and conducted numerous interviews with Northwest stakeholders ...
Eileen V. Quigley
7/1/2019
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Meeting the Challenge of Our Time
Today, the Clean Energy Transition Institute released Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest, the first economy...
Eileen V. Quigley
6/5/2019
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Cities Creating Strategies for Emission Reduction
Once a community’s overall sources and uses of energy are established, citizens and government officials must determine how to focus their emission-reduction efforts. To do so, they can use a carbon wedge analysis...
Eileen V. Quigley
7/31/2018
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Seattle Ups Ante on Climate Action
Newly elected Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wasted no time making clear her commitment to serious climate action, announcing new carbon emission-reduction initiatives for transportation and buildings on April 4, 2018...
Eileen V. Quigley
4/11/2018
Blog
Empower Cities to Take Bold Action
Thank you very much for the opportunity to share my observations about how local government can accelerate clean energy in Washington State. My name is Eileen Quigley and I direct Clean Energy Transition, a Seattle, WA-based organization that ...
Eileen V. Quigley
1/10/2018
Blog
Promises that Can’t be Kept: Trump and Coal
President Donald Trump kicked off a campaign rally in the coal-dependent state of West Virginia on August 3, with this assertion that he is reviving the moribund coal industry and putting miners back to work. How does this claim hold up?
Ross Macfarlane
8/8/2017
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