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Most Americans support renewable energy standards

Jun 3, 2015
Despite recent attempts in many state legislatures to repeal or weaken renewable energy requirements, a University of Michigan poll finds that a majority of Americans—of every race, income and education level, and religious and political...
State & Hill

Transforming transportation

Apr 27, 2015
Charles Henley (MPP ’00), Senior Manager, Capital Program Department, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Helps identify funding sources, and sets spending and investment priorities for the largest public transportation provider in...
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Ford School students host annual US-Canada conference

Mar 31, 2015
The 6th annual Ford+SPPG Conference took place earlier this month at Joan and Sanford Weill Hall in Ann Arbor. The event brings together MPP candidates from the Ford School and the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance...
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State & Hill

Cities, where sustainability leadership begins

Dec 9, 2014
Matt Naud, environmental coordinator for the city of Ann Arbor, talks environmental innovation   Fourteen years ago, the City of Ann Arbor launched a new commission on the environment. The group would report annually on the state of the...
Cities, where sustainability leadership begins

Rabe in HuffPo on likely impact of Republican jobs bills

Dec 2, 2014
Barry Rabe was one of five policy and economic experts tapped by the Huffington Post to examine the merits of the 40-plus jobs bills Republicans have tried to pass in recent years. While the majority of the bills have stalled in the...
Barry Rabe

How states should tax new fossil fuel boom

Nov 14, 2014
In “How Should States Tax New Fossil Fuel Boom,” Barry Rabe speaks with Michigan Radio’s Stateside with Cynthia Canty to discuss the taxation of fossil fuels, which has become a frontline political issue in many states due to the growth of fracking....
Barry Rabe

Barry Rabe on U.S./China climate deal

Nov 13, 2014
In the November 13 U.S. News & World Report story, “Obama’s latest climate goal with China, what it will take” Barry Rabe discusses President Barack Obama’s recent pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 30 percent from 2005 levels by...

The changing economics of nuclear power

Oct 9, 2014
Policy Points is a video series featuring short segments on current events or recent research by faculty from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. We encourage opinion leaders worldwide to use material from these videos or transcripts in...
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Nuclear energy competition enhances safety, profitability?

Sep 12, 2014
After the widespread deregulation of U.S. energy in the late 1990s, in which half of American nuclear plants entered wholesale electricity markets for the first time, there were public fears that the new profit-mentality would degrade safety...
Ford School
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Proximity to Great Lakes a key factor in local officials' views

Sep 4, 2014
By Greta Guest ANN ARBOR—Nearly all of Michigan's local leaders see the Great Lakes as a valuable economic resource for the state, but some don't see it that way for their own jurisdictions, according to a survey by the University of Michigan's...
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Carbon tax might work, if revenue funds renewables

Jul 23, 2014
A July 21 report released by Barry Rabe, director of the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), and collaborators at the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, "Public Views on a Carbon Tax Depend on the Proposed Use of...
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