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In the Media

Can Wind Turbines Help Keep Rural America Intact?

Nov 26, 2014 Climaterocks.com

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In the Media

Opinion Poll: Canada's climate change consensus confronts Keystone

Nov 21, 2014 Phys.org

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In the Media

Opinion Poll: Canada's climate change consensus confronts Keystone

Nov 21, 2014 Phys.org

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In the Media

Opinion Poll: Canada's Climate Change Consensus Confronts Keystone

Nov 20, 2014 newswise.com

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In the Media

Senate Rejection of Keystone XL Measure Sets Up 2015 Showdown

Nov 19, 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek

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In the Media

County to learn more through U-M wind studies

Nov 18, 2014 Huron Daily Tribune

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In the Media

Michigan Public Act 295 of 2008: Clean, Renewable, and Efficient Energy Act

Nov 13, 2014 Michigan Policy Network

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In the Media

Obama's Latest Climate Goal: What It Will Take to Rein in Emissions

Nov 12, 2014 US News & World Report

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In the Media

How should states tax the new fossil-fuel boom?

Nov 12, 2014 Michigan Radio, Stateside with Cynthia Canty

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In the Media

How should states tax the new fossil-fuel boom?

Nov 12, 2014 Interlochen Public Radio

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In the Media

Can China hide behind the U.S. on climate change?

Nov 6, 2014 China Policy Institute Blog

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In the Media

Barry Rabe: Taxes on fracking? Politics in the shale era [Video]

Nov 5, 2014 Ford School Policy Points

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In the Media

Climate Hawk Gives Unbeatable Fred Upton a Run for His Oil Industry Money

Nov 3, 2014 InsideClimateNews.org

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In the Media

Mileah Kromer: A View from the States' Public Opinion and Hydraulic Fracturing in Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania

Oct 26, 2014 Center Maryland

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In the Media

As The Weather Changes, So Do Beliefs About Climate Change

Oct 22, 2014 science2.0.com

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In the Media

Fewer Americans Think Global Warming Is Happening [Video]

Oct 21, 2014 Insidescience.org

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In the Media

The Multibillion Dollar Question: How to Spend Carbon Revenues?

Oct 14, 2014

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In the Media

The multibillion dollar question: How to spend carbon revenues?

Oct 13, 2014 Energy Institute at HAAS

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In the Media

For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 White Lake-Highland Patch

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In the Media

Mich. Pipeline Leak Is Political Fodder in Heated House Race

Oct 2, 2014 InsideClimateNews.org

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In the Media

Pennsylvanians less likely than New Yorkers to view fracking negatively

Sep 9, 2014 phys.org

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In the Media

Study: As Oil and Gas Boom, Energy Taxes Fall

Sep 9, 2014 US News & World Report

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Survey: Pennsylvanians like fracking more than New Yorkers

Sep 8, 2014 stateimpact.npr.org

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In the Media

Pa. residents like natural-gas drilling, also want to tax it

Sep 8, 2014 Philly.com

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In the Media

Bill Becker's climate optimism

Aug 31, 2014 Mountain Town News

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MPPS

Michigan local government officials’ views on expanding energy infrastructure in their jurisdictions

May 22, 2024

This report presents the views of Michigan’s local government leaders on the amount of energy infrastructure currently hosted in their jurisdiction, as well as their support for or opposition to building new energy infrastructure locally. These...

MPPS

Michigan local government leaders report increases in local planning for electric vehicles (EVs)

May 1, 2024

This report presents the views of Michigan’s local government leaders on electric vehicle (EV) policies in their communities, including the relevance of EV infrastructure planning for their government, whether they currently have or are considering...

Working Papers

Texas Energy Policy Landscape and Analysis

April 24, 2024

Chen Lyu**, Sam Fleckenstein**, Zach Nerod**, University of Michigan

Texas has long been a leader in energy production. Blessed with windy, wide-open plains, ample sunshine and large oil and gas deposits, Texas has attracted leading entrepreneurs and companies that continue to drive investment and politics in the...

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Most Michigan local government officials say control over renewable energy projects should stay local

February 20, 2024

This policy brief presents the views of Michigan's local government leaders regarding the division of authority between state and local governments on planning and zoning for renewable energy projects. These findings are based on statewide surveys...

Working Papers

Colorado Renewable Energy Policy Report

December 22, 2023

Lanika Sanders**, Lanzhao Cheng**, Brooke Bulmash**, Upasana Roy**, University of Michigan

Amid the intensifying impacts of a changing climate and the need to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy presents a critical area of policy and planning that requires states to reconsider the energy policy status quo....