Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA

Community Insights on Weather-Induced Energy Insecurity: A Case Study of Extreme Heat and Power Outages in North Lawndale, Chicago

This report explores how residents of North Lawndale, a predominantly Black and historically under-resourced neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, experience the compounded effects of heat waves and power outages.

Reports by Qëndresa Krasniqi, Helen Yibrah, Rachel Scheu + 2 more • July 10, 2025

Community Insights on Weather-Induced Energy Insecurity: A Case Study of Extreme Heat and Power Outages in North Lawndale, Chicago

Critical Minerals

Five Key Decisions to Revitalize US Critical Mineral Stockpiles

The report outlines five foundational choices if a stockpiling strategy is adopted, as bipartisan support suggests is possible.

Reports by Tom Moerenhout, Cina Vazir & Irina Patrahau • July 09, 2025

Five Key Decisions to Revitalize US Critical Mineral Stockpiles

Finance & Economics

A Roadmap to Catalyze Methane Abatement in the Oil and Gas Sector Using Debt Financing

Human-caused methane emissions have contributed to at least one quarter of global warming since the preindustrial era. Since methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) in trapping heat over the first two decades after its release, abating methane is considered a critical near-term strategy for reducing emissions.[

Reports by Luisa Palacios, Gautam Jain & Preetha Jenarthan • June 30, 2025

A Roadmap to Catalyze Methane Abatement in the Oil and Gas Sector Using Debt Financing

Critical Minerals

Assessing the Policy Ecosystems and Scaling Pathways of Direct Lithium Extraction

Lithium plays a critical role in the global energy transition. It is the core ingredient of lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and are used in stationary energy storage systems.

Reports by Milo McBride, Tom Moerenhout, Diego Rivera Rivota + 1 more • May 19, 2025

Assessing the Policy Ecosystems and Scaling Pathways of Direct Lithium Extraction

Finance & Economics

Constraining the Choice Set: Oklahoma’s Limited Approach to Building Economic Resilience

The report presents insights on Oklahoma’s economic resilience strategies, relevant policies, and proposed program enhancements based on a set of interviews with key stakeholders.

Reports with Noah Kaufman • Resources for the Future • May 13, 2025

Nuclear Energy

Improving the Efficiency of NRC Power Reactor Licensing: Environmental Reviews

Reports by Matt Bowen & Rama T. Ponangi • January 27, 2025

Finance & Economics

Economic Performance in US Fossil Fuel Communities

Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels to address the severe threats of climate change requires economic transformations that pose challenges for regions heavily dependent on coal, oil, natural gas, or other carbon-intensive industries.

Reports by Noah Kaufman, Ariane Desrosiers & Sarah Doctor • December 05, 2024

Economic Performance in US Fossil Fuel Communities

Nuclear Energy

Lessons from the Nuclear Waste Negotiator Era of the 1990s for Today’s Consent-Based Siting Efforts

Nuclear power is being weighed in energy transition plans around the world, as countries seek to replace fossil fuels with low-carbon alternatives while also meeting growing energy demand and maintaining reliability and affordability.

Reports by Matt Bowen • September 11, 2024

Lessons from the Nuclear Waste Negotiator Era of the 1990s for Today’s Consent-Based Siting Efforts

Industrial Decarbonization

Triggering Investment in First-of-a-Kind and Early Near-Zero Emissions Industrial Facilities

This report explores financial policy instruments that can make first-of-a-kind (FOAK) near-zero emission industrial facilities viable.

Reports by Chris Bataille, Seton Stiebert, Jonas Algers + 2 more • August 01, 2024

Triggering Investment in First-of-a-Kind and Early Near-Zero Emissions Industrial Facilities

Nuclear Energy

Revisiting GTCC and GTCC-Like Nuclear Waste Disposal in the United States

While the United States (US) has facilities that can and do dispose of most low-level nuclear waste (LLW), it does not yet have a viable disposal pathway for two categories of waste: so-called greater-than-class-c (GTCC) nuclear waste, and nuclear waste with characteristics similar to it, or “GTCC-like.”

Reports by Matt Bowen, Maya Lameche & Marine Gapihan • July 25, 2024

Revisiting GTCC and GTCC-Like Nuclear Waste Disposal in the United States

Power Sector

Using New Marginal Emissions Data to Improve State Renewable Portfolio Standards

The majority of US states use a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to achieve clean energy targets. RPS programs typically set annual clean energy production levels, but they ignore the significant variations in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of the grid at different times of the day and at different locations.

Reports by Devan Samant, Abraham Silverman & Zachary A. Wendling • May 30, 2024

Using New Marginal Emissions Data to Improve State Renewable Portfolio Standards

Power Sector

Outlook for Pending Generation in the PJM Interconnection Queue

Reports by Abraham Silverman, Zachary A. Wendling, Kavyaa Rizal + 1 more • May 08, 2024

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