Joan Fitzgerald

The Green Wall against Trump

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Donald Trump may repeal Obama’s Clean Power Plan, writes Joan Fitzgerald, but states and cities can, and will, still do a lot to advance clean power.

On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order to repeal President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which mandated emission reductions from power companies (an estimated 650 million tons by 2025 alone). But since 29 […]

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    Subsidizing solar power manufacturers is no guarantee of success

Subsidizing solar power manufacturers is no guarantee of success

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In the early 2000s, as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many US states and cities expanded subsidies for solar power manufacturers, which led to a growing industry. But by the early 2010s, many previously successful companies had gone bankrupt. Joan Fitzgerald writes that these companies were largely undercut by China’s solar industry which dumped its […]

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    US city planners can learn lessons from the successes of Malmö‘s eco-districts

US city planners can learn lessons from the successes of Malmö‘s eco-districts

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With the decline and demise of manufacturing industries in many areas across the US, city planners now have an opportunity to introduce policies to make cities more sustainable. Joan Fitzgerald looks at lessons in sustainability from the Swedish city of Malmö which used its industrial decline in the 1990s as an opportunity to create an eco-district. She writes that […]

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