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How Fast-Growing Colorado is Tackling its Transportation Emissions
From Denver smog to jammed mountain highways, Colorado is focusing on transportation to solve congestion, pollution, and climate problems.
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Funding Our Future: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Can Accelerate Net-Zero Transportation — Or Hit the Brakes
Lately, the shortcomings of the US transportation system have become front page news almost daily. The invasion of Ukraine has laid bare the impacts of global oil dependence, with gasoline and diesel prices reaching record…
Mobility
Funding Our Future: The EV Transition Requires Infrastructure that Inspires Confidence and Powers All Communities
This article is part of RMI’s “Funding Our Future: Investing for Climate Impact” series, in which we discuss how we are informing the federal government about how federal infrastructure funds should be spent to…
United States
Memo Focus: Hydrogen Abatement
The United States is in its defining decade to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Low-carbon production of hydrogen can play a major role in industries and end uses where electrification is not possible— helping us reach…
United States
One Simple Tax Change Could Unlock Critical Clean Energy Infrastructure
A simple change in the tax rules for stand-alone battery storage and transmission could make the Build Back Better bill more effective for both customers and the electricity grid.
United States
Reality Check: Proposed Clean Energy Incentives Would Save Electricity Customers Billions
Opponents of the Build Back Better proposal have repeatedly amplified the myth that the financial incentives for clean energy will burden Americans with higher electricity costs. But a new RMI analysis shows the opposite to…
Electricity
Reality Check: Appalachia Poised to Become Clean Energy Country
When it comes to the clean energy transition, many fear that coal-dependent regions like Appalachia will lose out or be left behind. But a new analysis from RMI challenges that assumption, finding that Appalachia could…
Caribbean Islands
Bringing Reliable, Renewable Energy to the People
Income inequality is palpable on the streets of the United States in cities and towns alike. On one block you may have neighborhoods with maintained roads and sidewalks, well-funded schools, and easy access to services…
United States
Don’t Take Existing Energy Transition Funding for Granted
In the United States, while all eyes have been on the bipartisan infrastructure package and reconciliation bill, local leaders should not lose sight of the funding that already exists to accelerate the transition to a…
Building Electrification
How Congress Can Accelerate Zero-Emissions Homes
The Biden administration has set an ambitious goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030 to help avoid the worst impacts of climate disruption. As a result, 2021 may be the year the federal government finally acts to curb one of the largest sources of those emissions:…