by ridgelinecenter | Jun 9, 2026
This brief, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on behalf of administrative and constitutional law scholars as amici curiae, explains why EPA’s decisions on California’s applications for waivers of preemption under Clean...
by ridgelinecenter | Jan 16, 2026
This brief, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of administrative and constitutional law scholars as amici curiae, explains why EPA’s decisions on California’s applications for waivers of preemption under...
by ridgelinecenter | Aug 6, 2025
This report presents the emissions and cost results of a series of variant cases run in the FACETS energy system model to assess alternatives to EPA’s proposed repeal of the Carbon Pollution Standards (CPS). FACETS—a detailed, technologically-realistic model of...
by ridgelinecenter | Jul 25, 2025
This technical primer describes how coal-fired power plants work and how they can “cofire” natural gas alongside coal, supporting the case that natural gas cofiring is a practical, low-cost tool for reducing emissions from existing coal plants. It walks...
by ridgelinecenter | May 6, 2024
Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. In this episode, Executive Director Jonas Monast and Director of Policy Analysis Grace Van Horn do a deep analysis on the EPA’s recently finalized carbon pollution standards for power plants.
