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What We Are Reading

Climate Change: When Rain, Rain Won’t Go Away Dan Vergano/ USA Today On Aug. 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene’s rains swelled the Williams River, smashing dams, flooding homes and carrying off the historic Lower Bartonsville Covered Bridge. This wasn’t just...

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  Does Climate Change Worry You? How About Insurance to Cover Its Consequences? Terry Anderson and Dino Falaschetti/ Forbes With private investment in green energy down 34 percent between 2011 and 2012, proponents of subsidies for R&D struggle to make their...

Event Review: Energy Security Trust Fund

On March 19, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) held an event discussing the Energy Security Trust Fund (ESTF). The ESTF would be designed to focus solely on investing in new technologies that would improve the United States energy security now and in the future....

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Arms and Influence Stephen M. Walt/Foreign Policy The Obama administration is reportedly rethinking its previous reluctance to send arms to the Syrian rebels. With violence continuing to rise and Assad refusing to blow town, the apparent aim is to ensure that the...