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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Bureaucracy as Social Hope: An Argument for Renewing the Administrative State

…acutely in the climate movement. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was by far the largest climate investment the world has ever seen. Biden-era regulations were intended to further spur rapid…

02.12.26 | 29 min read
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Clean Energy
Report
DOE 4.0: Rethinking Program Design for a Clean Energy Future

…and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) crystallized DOE 3.0’s dual mandate to not only drive U.S. leadership in science and technology innovation (as under DOE 1.0 and 2.0), but also…

01.26.26 | 27 min read
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Clean Energy
Report
One Year into the Trump Administration: DOE’s Diminished Organizational Capacity

…primarily from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs but also others; the rescission of billions of dollars from IRA programs through the One Big Beautiful…

01.20.26 | 10 min read
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Government Capacity
Report
Barriers to Building: A Framework for the Next Era of Electricity Policy

…Past federal and state clean energy policies, including the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) as well as state renewable portfolio standards, have leaned heavily on…

12.15.25 | 26 min read
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Clean Energy
Report
Report: When Ambition Meets Reality — Lessons Learned in Federal Clean Energy Implementation, and a Path Forward

…the frontlines of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) implementation, the near-weekly announcements and headlines have been maddening, especially at a time when many of these projects…

11.19.25 | 6 min read
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