Deborah Gordon
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Providence, RI, United States
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Methane solutions offer down payment on our climate future
Methane is a greenhouse gas that isn't talked about enough but needs to be addressed → Read More
Could Geoengineering Save the Planet from Global Warming?
The field of climate engineering remains largely unknown, especially to policymakers and the public, despite the real risks that accompany such actions and the planetary scale of their impacts. → Read More
Chayes, Coll, and Suraju on Corruption in the Oil Industry
Sarah Chayes, Steve Coll, and Olarenwaju Suraju discussed how corruption can become an inextricable part of an economy and how civil society and the U.S. government can work to prevent it. (Runtime - 22:21) → Read More
Understanding Climate Engineering
Greater transparency is needed to assess and govern the array of new engineering tools under development to alter the global climate system. → Read More
From Standard To Smarter Oil
The days of simply sticking a pipe in the ground and tapping a pool of easy-to-handle and profitable crude oil are fading. Changing resources require people challenge conventional thinking on oil. → Read More
The EPA Needs Protecting
Slashing the EPA’s budget and cutting its staffing as proposed in President Trump’s plan will have serious ramifications not only for public health and safety, but for productive collaboration with industry. → Read More
Need to Know: The Case for Oil Transparency in California
By simply knowing more about its oil, California has an opportunity to further transform a critical sector that must rapidly respond to the realities of a warming world. → Read More
Drilling Down on Oil: The Case of California’s Complex Midway Sunset Field
Given the state’s future oil prospects along with large volumes currently being produced, refined, and sold, it is incumbent that elected officials and the public better understand California’s oils. → Read More
If U.S. Government Stifles Knowledge on Environment, States May Be Able to Help
While recent actions in Washington cast doubt on the reliability of federal data, states stand to gain if they collect the data necessary to solve pressing problems, such as climate change. → Read More
California’s oil is an opportunity to combat climate change
The new frontier of California’s climate policy innovation is focused on reducing oil refinery emissions 20 percent by 2030. By creating targeted incentives to extract the cleanest oils, refine them in the cleanest way and send them to the highest-value uses, California can go a long way in reducing its own petroleum sector emissions. → Read More
California’s Oil Is an Opportunity to Combat Climate Change
California has an opportunity to pioneer economically and environmentally responsible solutions to the nation’s most vexing short-term pollution and long-term climate challenges when the national government won’t. → Read More
Mexico’s Energy Reforms: New Frontiers in Regulatory Transparency
Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission has faced myriad challenges and opportunities since its first open licensing rounds in 2015. What can an independent regulatory agency achieve in a country that just opened its petroleum industry to private investments? → Read More
What the World Needs Now Is Climate-Conscious Cohorts
California, Germany, and Canada together could be the combination to unlock a global energy future. → Read More
Online Q&A on the Climate Impacts of Diverse Oils
Experts from the Carnegie Endowment, Stanford University, and University of Calgary will participate in a Reddit AMA on December 5. → Read More
Oil Innovations to Reduce Climate Impacts
Reducing emissions through innovation is technically feasible, and despite a regulatory focus on other fossil fuels, oil will increasingly offer ways to mitigate climate change. → Read More
Getting Smart About Oil in a Warming World
Focusing mainly on petroleum products has handicapped efforts to help the oil industry make choices consonant with a low-carbon world. → Read More
Future Surprises That Could Shock the World
Taxing climate pollution instead of productivity will be a societal breakthrough. → Read More
Pricing Oil for a Safe Climate
A smart carbon tax differentiates among the different chemical entities called “oil,” accounts for GHG emissions along the entire oil supply chain, and includes byproducts that do not fuel transport. → Read More
A Smart Tax: Pricing Oil for a Safe Climate
Because of the growing chemical and geological diversity of the new oils, the lack of alternative liquid fuels for transportation, and the size and global scope of oil production and trade, a tax is most needed in the oil sector. → Read More
California’s Unspoken Oil Failure
California has for too long turned a blind eye to squarely managing its own oil, choosing instead to target other states’ and countries’ fossil fuels. → Read More