Latin America, Green Materials and Free Trade Agreements
If the U.S. is to create a resilient energy supply chain and securitize its own needs for the energy transition, it should…
February 24, 2021 5515 Results
Webinar — Managing Transitions: The Future of National Oil Companies in Latin America February 23, 2021
National oil companies (NOCs) in Latin America must deal with extraordinary shifts in their operating environment, due to…
U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela’s Hydrocarbon Sector
Sanctions against Venezuela have reduced PDVSA and the Maduro regime's revenues, but they have failed to lead to a path…
February 23, 2021 
Grids and Renewables
In the transition to a renewable energy future, we must invest in a new transmission infrastructure – some crossing state…
February 22, 2021 
The Road Back to the Moon
This brief reviews the cost and development problems associated with NASA's plan to return to the moon by 2024 and argues…
February 19, 2021 
Waste Management and the Energy Transition: The Path to Sustainability and a Circular Economy
Integrating a life-cycle dimension into future policies to assess the social, environmental and economic implications of…
February 19, 2021 
Winterization and the Texas Blackout: Fail to Prepare? Prepare to Fail
Lax regulation exposed electricity producers — and their customers — to failures that killed off all four of Texas’ top…
February 19, 2021 
The Materialization of a Dream: Creating a Pathway to Permanent Residency for DACA Recipients
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided hundreds of thousands of young people in the U.S…
February 19, 2021 
Pandemics, the Economy, Nature and the Energy Sector
The author draws links between pandemics, the economy, nature and energy, showing that policies reducing the probability of…
February 18, 2021 
NASA’s Space Launch System
Due to its high launch costs and the availability of other, more cost-effective commercial launch vehicles, the Biden…
February 17, 2021