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Assessing the Energy Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
This special CGEP blog series, featuring six contributions from CGEP scholars, analyzes the potential impacts of the OBBBA across a range of sectors.
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Climate Shocks Are Redefining Energy Security
Many parts of the US have experienced brutal, deadly heat in recent weeks—and there’s plenty of summer left. Intense rainfall, made more likely by warming, dropped more than...
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Understanding Pemex’s Post-Election Challenges through Six Charts
On June 2, Mexican citizens will head to the polls to elect the successor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Toward Global Food Security with Low-Carbon Fertilizers
In this article, the authors posit that tackling natural gas flaring and fostering low-carbon ammonia production are pathways worth exploring to help create capabilities to produce nitrogen fertilizers while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
These Companies Are Pushing Back on Science Showing Their Pollution
When researchers said satellite data showed their facilities had leaked huge amounts of methane, companies began questioning the scientific analysis.
Fertilizer Woes at the Energy-Food Nexus
The developing world has been hit hard by the fragility of the nitrogen fertilizer supply chain, a vulnerability exposed by various recent events perturbing the global economy, most notably Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Without Natural Gas, Nearshoring in Mexico Flops, Experts Say
Unlock the potential of nearshoring in Mexico with access to natural gas, experts say. Discover how this key resource is shaping Mexico's economic future.
Pemex desaprovecha el amoniaco verde para fertilizantes
MÉXICO – En el entorno predomina una sensación de obsolescencia y abandono. Tubos oxidados, estructuras vetustas por doquier y turbinas apagadas llenan la vasta extensión de la mexicana planta petroquímica de Pajaritos, propiedad de Agro Nitrogenados, en un silencio propio de una escena distópica. La fábrica de urea, situada Coatzacoalcos, en el sudoriental estado de […]
INSIGHT: Mexican chems, short on ethane, await ’24 election for new policies
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Protests against the exploitation of a copper mine show the clash between two environmentalisms in Panama
The Central American country is the world’s fourteenth largest copper producer and has gained relevance as a result of increasing interest in electric energy as an alternative to fossil fuels