The Red and the Black: Countering Green-Power Cost Creep with Carbon Pricing
Decarbonization of electricity supply is a cornerstone of U.S. and, hence, global efforts to phase out fossil fuels and eliminate their carbon emissions. Key to this endeavor is rapid deployment of large-scale wind and solar farms and nuclear power stations. However, expectations that these technologies would scale broadly and easily are being called into question by cancellations of notable projects including a giant wind farm off the coast of New Jersey and a highly touted "small modular reactor" facility in Idaho. Our project will determine and quantify the key "cost drivers" behind these and other green-power cancellations and evaluate which are likely to be permanent and which will be transitory. We will also assess the extent to which robust carbon-emissions pricing could return these green projects to profitability by strengthening their revenue stream and helping the developers rout the "NIMBYs" who are hamstringing project schedules and eroding their bottom lines.

• Investigates the causes of economic imbalances.
• Investigates causes tending to destroy or impair the free-market system.
• Explores and develops market-based solutions.

Compelling Fossil Fuel and Associated GHG Pollution Phase Out Under Existing US Law
Advocacy, research, and legal action to secure a wholesale change in federal climate policy consistent with US obligations under domestic and international law.

• Investigates causes tending to destroy or impair the free-market system.
• Explores and develops market-based solutions.

Clean-up expedition to plastic-polluted Henderson Island.
1. Return site visit to Henderson Island to complete work interruped by COVID Pandemic. 2. Support efforts around "circular economy" solutions for plastic waste. 3. Speaking engagements to message need to reduce plastic pollution at the source.

• Investigates the causes of economic imbalances.
• Explores and develops market-based solutions.

National Wildlife Federation Conflict Resolution Program
After decades of conflicts between wildlife and public land livestock grazing in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, NWF entered the scene in the early 2000’s with a novel approach to ameliorate these conflicts. Over the last two-plus decades, staff from the Wildlife Conflict Resolution program (WCR) refined a strategy that compensates ranchers for voluntarily waiving their livestock permits, thereby removing their livestock from those conflicts grazing allotments. NWF’s grazing retirement work benefits myriad species, but our primary focus is to enable the expansion of large carnivores like wolves and grizzlies, bighorn sheep, ESA listed species and improving fisheries across multiple ecoregions. The geographic focus of this proposal is the Southern Rockies, Colorado Plateau including Utah and the Great Basin. More specifically, we are requesting support for the third year of our work in the Grand Staircase- Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments.

• Explores and develops market-based solutions.

New Tool, New Solutions for Decarbonizing Calif & Georgia Grids
This project will use a unique new computer-based tool to investigate how two states, California and Georgia, can successfully decarbonize their electric grids by introducing nuclear power, a reliable, emission-free energy source. The electric grids in these states will need dispatchable emission-free resources to assure a reliable future grid. This project will describe the size, output requirements, and cost of these resources in these two contrasting case studies.

• Investigates the causes of economic imbalances.
• Explores and develops market-based solutions.

Pricing Carbon Initiative Dialogues, Public Forums, CBAM Project, and Capacity Building in 2024
The Pricing Carbon Initiative (PCI) will continue with its mission, to build support for bipartisan carbon pricing solutions, designed to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make US goods more competitive with nations imposing Carbon Border Measures, and foster understanding and cooperation between a wide range of organizations and opinion leaders. Specifically, the Walker Foundation funding this year will assist PCI, begun in 2011, with projects informed by the day-long Pricing Carbon Dialogue on January 23, at Brookings Institution. That work will involve virtual Dialogues, public forums, the “Convening the Conveners” project (seeking viable Carbon Border Measure opportunities) and overall PCI capacity building.

• Investigates the causes of economic imbalances.
• Investigates the effect of the global financial system and/or the monetary system in fostering a sustainable economy.
• Investigates causes tending to destroy or impair the free-market system.
• Explores and develops market-based solutions.

A Carbon Tariff (CBAM) in the U.S. – A path forward after the 2024 election
Project will explore the feasibility of a carbon tariff in the U.S. after the election.

• Explores and develops market-based solutions.