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The EcoRight Speaks talks RGGI with Shuting Pomerleau
Shuting Pomerleau is the Director of Energy and Environmental Policy at the American Action Forum. Shuting’s work focuses on energy and environmental policy analysis. Research topics include carbon border adjustments, carbon taxation, climate and trade, the latest developments in energy markets, and electricity markets. Her work has been featured in a wide range of outlets including Bloomberg, Financial Times, and TIME. She has also spoken at many public conferences and events.
Carbon pricing in the real world: Virginia rejoins RGGI
Congrats to Chelsea Henderson and Shuting Pomerleau on yet another captivating episode of EcoRight Speaks! I found the episode’s topic to be an excellent follow-up to Shuting’s republicEn debut on the podcast in 2024, especially given that it’s been almost a month since Virginia officially rejoined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Chelsea and Shuting dive deeper into the policy implications for Virginia’s re-entry in Episode Two of Season 13 of EcoRight Speaks, as the Old Dominion State had previously exited the initiative in 2023. For those who have yet to tune in, the RGGI is a cap-and-trade program, which has been running since 2005, adopted by 11 states in the Northeast with the cooperative goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector.
Climate Week En Review: These Are Days
Our friend Alex Flint penned this insightful piece that should be required reading not only for everyone identifying as EcoRight, but also our allies, especially those who understand the need for bipartisan cooperation on climate change.
Lucky Season 13 of the EcoRight Speaks Starts Now!
Kicking things off for us is the President of Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), Dr. Nat Keohane. C2ES is a widely respected, nonpartisan non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works with policy makers and leading businesses to accelerate the transition to a thriving, just, and resilient net-zero-emissions economy.
Climate Week En Review: Kittens
Last weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly.
“Climate change is real,” Graham wrote in a 2009 op-ed that kicked off his direct engagement in climate solutions.
Those who worked with him and his office started to go down memory lane a bit. I recall being in a meeting with him back when I was with the National Wildlife Federation, which was courting him to take the climate mantle from Senator John McCain. Later, on staff for Senator John Warner, we had hoped to get his vote on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. He eventually joined Senator Joe Lieberman’s decade-long quest for comprehensive climate legislation (which failed) and in more recent years, teamed up with Senator Bill Cassidy on the Foreign Pollution Fee Act.
Climate Week En Review: Summer Pastimes
If climate change summers are going to be longer and hotter, we need more pastimes. Baseball? Ice cream eating? Going to a double feature in a cold, dark movie theater? I really struggled last week when temps were in the 100s (and the “real feel” staggeringly higher) to come up with things to do that were not just sitting on the couch binging TV. If this is a taste of summers to come, I’m going to need better things to do!
Outlook July 2026: Get On with It!
Great conversation with the hosts of Bourbon in the Back Room. Bob Inglis joined former South Carolina Senators Vincent Sheheen and Joel Lourie to talk about why conservatives should lead on...
Ford Is Betting on American Manufacturing. Here’s Why.
A Ford employee welds a vehicle component as the company invests in the next generation of American manufacturing and electric vehicles. Photo credit: Ford Motor Co.When people think about electric...
Climate Week En Review: Let Freedom Ring
It’s so weird that typically federal holidays fall on a Monday (yay three-day weekend) but in the last two weeks, we’ve had two fall on Friday, thus Week En Review is once again coming to you on Thursday.
Are those of you sweating it out in the heat dome (like I am) planning on any fireworks or parades? Or is it all indoor activities with AC on full blast?
What ever your plans, I hope you are staying cool and hydrated!
Climate Week En Review: It’s Electric
They say it rains all the time in the PNW and I’m sure that’s the case, but the 10 days I got to spend in Oregon were some of the nicest summer weather I’ve ever experienced. It was a rude awakening to come home to the DMV and it’s humid, rain-soaked days. (I know, we need it… my garden tells me so.)
Climate Week En Review: A little bit louder
What a lovely week, kicked off with the college graduation of my baby. To have raised two full-fledged adults is really something, if I do say so myself. The ceremony may have been large, but the speeches meaningful and the traditions moved me. Plus, I can’t hear Pomp and Circumstance and not get teary.
EcoRight Poll Results: Faith Matters. But What People Want Most Is Action.
How much does faith shape the way people think about climate stewardship? According to a recent republicEn poll, nearly two-thirds of respondents said faith plays an important role in how they think...