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MIT News | Jan 04, 2012
Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades — but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist explains the conundrum. By: Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Contrary to common perception, the major automakers have produced large...
Shaledrilling
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MIT News | Jan 03, 2012
By: Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change       Shale gas — a resource that has grown significantly in just the last few years to one-quarter of the domestic gas supply — is cheaper and involves fewer emissions than traditional coal or oil. But recent...
Student Spotlight
Jan 02, 2012

“I wouldn’t have come to MIT if I wasn’t able to be on the China Project because it is a unique combination of this broad focus on technology and policy, but also a dedicated focus on China, which is pretty rare in this field,” Davidson says.

3 Questions
Jan 01, 2012

3 Questions with John Reilly

 

Q: What is the concept behind “green growth” and related ideas--are green growth policies effective?

 

smokestacks
LA Times | Dec 21, 2011
By Dean Kuipers Finally, some sanity regarding smokestack emissions. After decades of political squabbling, on Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
smokestacks
MIT News | Dec 21, 2011
As the world’s population continues to expand, our natural resources will become increasingly strained. In an effort to find sustainable solutions for the planet’s growing population while minimizing environmental impacts, MIT’s Environmental Research Council (ERC) has put forward a detailed...
Dec 13, 2011

This talk will describe the tremendous potential benefits of shale gas and the environmental challenges posed by shale gas production. John Deutch will review the work of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Shale Gas Subcommittee, which he chaired, including the recommendations, the reasons...

electric grid
MIT News | Dec 05, 2011
MIT report shows that with new policies, U.S. electric grid could handle expected influx of electric cars and wind and solar generation.     Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent...
Nov 30, 2011

Panel discussion on the impact of climate change on agriculture and the food we eat.

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Associated Press | Nov 21, 2011
AP, Seth Borenstein WASHINGTON (AP) — Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are building up so high, so fast, that some scientists now think the world can no longer limit global warming to the level world leaders have agreed upon as safe. New figures from the U.N. weather agency Monday...

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