Kit Batten

Investing in a Clean Energy Present and Future: Opportunities and the Costs of Inaction Article

Construction workers put down the top floor ceiling on the Department of Natural Resources' green building in Jefferson City, MO. Investments in efficient green buildings would create jobs, lower emissions, and use less energy. (AP/Kelley McCall)

Investing in a Clean Energy Present and Future: Opportunities and the Costs of Inaction

CAPAF's Kit Batten testifies on the benefits of investing in clean energy today, and what the costs of failing to act would be.

Jan 8, 2009

Kit Batten

Identifying Hurdles to Renewable Electricity Transmission Report

Implementing renewable energy on a broad scale will require steps to modernize the electrical grid. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Identifying Hurdles to Renewable Electricity Transmission

Kit Batten and Kari Manlove outline obstacles to modernizing the electrical grid for renewable electricity transmission.

Dec 18, 2008

Kit Batten, Kari Manlove

Investing in a Green Economy Report

Cap-and-trade programs, currently under debate, could provide much-needed revenue to help the transition to a low-carbon economy if they auction permits rather than giving them away for free to polluters. (AP)

Investing in a Green Economy

Report shows that auction revenue from cap-and-trade programs would provide much-needed revenue to help the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Jun 2, 2008

Kit Batten, Benjamin Goldstein, Bracken Hendricks

Full Disclosure Report

An Executive Order would clarify what is already a requirement under NEPA— that federal agencies can and should explicitly assess the implications of their actions for greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Full Disclosure

Report from Christopher Pyke and Kit Batten outlines an Executive Order to require consideration of global warming under the National Environmental Policy Act.

May 5, 2008

Christopher Pyke, Kit Batten

Energy Diversity Dividends: Biofuels Lower Oil Prices Article

Energy Diversity Dividends: Biofuels Lower Oil Prices

New market analysis shows that global biofuels boom helped reduce the cost of oil, writes Jake Caldwell and Kit Batten.

Mar 24, 2008

Kit Batten, Jake Caldwell

Develop Good Biofuels: The Journal Science Tells Us Why Article

Develop Good Biofuels: The Journal Science Tells Us Why

Two new studies highlight the need for tight environmental standards for biofuels to help us solve global warming, write Kit Batten and Jake Caldwell.

Feb 8, 2008

Kit Batten, Jake Caldwell

The Lessons of Bali: The U.S. Needs to Lead on Global Warming Article

The Lessons of Bali: The U.S. Needs to Lead on Global Warming

The Bush administration agreed to keep talking about global warming at the summit in Bali last week, but Congress should do more than talk, writes Kit Batten.

Dec 18, 2007

Kit Batten

A Real Change for Climate Policy: Moving Beyond the Kyoto Protocol in Bali Article