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Disaster Policy Nerds Explain the Good, Bad, and Ugly in FEMA Review Council Report

After months of delay, the council tasked by President Trump to review the FEMA released its final report. Our disaster policy nerds have thoughts.

05.21.26 | 8 min read
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States Are Plugging into Experimental Electricity Policy to Find Cost-Saving Success

To tune into the action on the ground, we convened practitioners, state and local officials, advocates, and policy experts to discuss what it will actually take to deploy clean energy faster, modernize electricity systems, and lower costs for households.

05.13.26 | 5 min read
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Trump’s DPA Play: Turning Energy Infrastructure Into a National Defense Priority

Over the past few months, the Trump administration has been laying the foundation to expand the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) for energy infrastructure and supply chains.

05.07.26 | 5 min read
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A Plan for Revitalizing the U.S. Auto Industry

Don’t like the Chinese-backed EVs that are undercutting your market? Start with a well-designed statute to strengthen market oversight and competition while also providing American companies with support.

04.23.26 | 13 min read
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Beyond Cap and Trade: What’s Next for Carbon Markets?

If carbon markets are going to play a meaningful role — whether as engines of transition finance, as instruments of accurate pricing across heterogeneous climate interventions, or both — they need the infrastructure and standards that any serious market requires.

04.16.26 | 9 min read
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DOE’s FY27 Budget Request: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Surprise! It’s a double album drop with the release of both the President’s Budget Request (PBR to us, not Pabst Blue Ribbon) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Budget Justification for Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) last Friday.

04.09.26 | 11 min read
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Hot Takes: What the FY27 Presidential Budget Request Means for Climate and Energy

Once upon a time, the President’s budget was a realistic proposal to Congress about what the federal government should spend money on. These days, it’s essentially just a declaration of everything the President would do if Congress didn’t matter at all.

04.07.26 | 11 min read
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CELS Playbook: Clean Electricity for Local and State Governments

A cohesive strategy to achieve two goals: (1) deploy the clean energy and grid upgrades necessary to make energy affordable and combat climate change and (2) create governments that tangibly improve peoples’ lives.

03.31.26 | 21 min read
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2026 Is Year of the Female Farmer. We Spoke to Five Who Are Also Technologists.

For International Year of the Woman Farmer and International Women’s Month, we spoke to five women farmers in America about planting the next generation.

03.27.26 | 6 min read
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Igniting Innovation: Progress and a Path Forward for Wildfire Policy

From California to New Jersey, wildfires are taking a toll—costing the United States up to $424 billion annually and displacing tens of thousands of people. Congress needs solutions.

03.11.26 | 3 min read
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Press release
FAS Launches New “Center for Regulatory Ingenuity” to Modernize American Governance, Drive Durable Climate Progress

FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic needs.

02.12.26 | 4 min read
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FAS Opposes EPA Move to Revoke 2009 Endangerment Finding

This runs counter to public opinion: 4 in 5 of all Americans, across party lines, want to see the government take stronger climate action.

02.12.26 | 2 min read
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