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The Peso Problem: Argentina’s Economic Crisis
A street artist is painting on a canvas of pesos. Families are taking handfuls of money to the grocery store, just to encounter confusion...
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Mar 12, 20234 min read
Dimming Lights: Mexico’s Energy Reform Amendments
In Fall 2021, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), proposed important changes to the 2014 Energy Reform law,...
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Mar 23, 20224 min read
No Clean Coal: The Complexities of Financing South Africa’s Energy Transition
In the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, the expanding Somkhele coal mine is tearing communities apart. Though many locals work for...
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Dec 20, 20211 min read
Keystone XL, the Commons, and Energy Independence
Among the flurry of executive orders signed by Joe Biden on his first day as President was the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline,...
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Mar 15, 20214 min read
Small, Green, and Mighty: Taiwan’s quest for energy independence
Taiwan is running on empty, and importing fuel won’t fix the root problem: The island is in desperate need of its own energy supply. In...
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May 29, 20203 min read
Defending the Land
Before dawn on February 6, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) raided the...
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May 29, 20205 min read
America’s Power Problem
America’s energy sector and power grids are in crisis. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2017 Infrastructure...
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Nov 15, 20196 min read
How Muslims are Changing the Face of Renewable Energy
Worldwide, climate change disproportionately affects the Muslim world, with recent increases in heat waves, floods, droughts, and extreme...
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Dec 9, 20185 min read
Slow and Steady: Mixed Energy Policies for a Clean Future
Rhode Island needs energy. A series of power plant closings and maxed out pipelines have left the state – and much of the New England...
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Nov 3, 20175 min read
Minding Mines: The Imperative for Making Nuclear Energy Cleaner
On December 20, 1951, the United States switched on the first peaceful nuclear power reactor the world had ever seen: Experimental...
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May 12, 20176 min read
BPR Interviews: Ernest Moniz
Ernest Moniz is the current U. S. Secretary of Energy. He was unanimously confirmed to the position by the Senate in 2013. Moniz is an...
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Dec 16, 20165 min read
The Politics of Energy: European Gas Wars
The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the Russian annexation of Crimea have changed the geopolitical game in Europe. In many ways, the...
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Nov 4, 20155 min read
Charged Up: How Georgia’s energy future could change geopolitics
On January 22nd, 2006, two Russian-controlled natural gas pipelines in the North Caucasus exploded. The impending delays to energy...
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Aug 18, 20155 min read
Power Struggle
They call it “Sin City of the Middle East.” Chic nightclubs and trendy rooftop bars sparkle along Beirut’s Mediterranean coast —...
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May 2, 20156 min read
Offshore Wind Farms: Spinning Towards a Cleaner Future
With growing alarm regarding climate change in the new millenium, the United States has energized efforts to utilize clean energy...
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Feb 25, 20154 min read
Clean Coal: China’s Path Towards Blue Skies?
Global environmental policy is rife with unfulfilled promises, as evidenced by the notorious Kyoto Protocols. China, to much surprise,...
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Mar 4, 20144 min read
Professor Podcasts: Edward Steinfeld
BPR’s Sabin Ray sat down with Professor Edward Steinfeld to talk about the politics of efficient energy use, industrial upgrading in...
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Oct 12, 20131 min read
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