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Carey King Research Newsletter - March 2016
Carey hosts the Texas Power Dialog on April 4, 2016, 5:30-7:30 pm
What to ask the TCEQ Commissioner a question about the Clean Power Plan or reducing CO2 emissions in Texas?
Join me for a discussion of the Clean Power Plan with Dr. Bryan Shaw (Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) and John Hall (Texas State Director for the Environmental Defense Fund).
The Power Dialog will engage approximately 10,000 students in face-to-face dialog with state-level regulators and policy experts in all fifty states. The topic? Implementing the Clean Power Plan, requiring 32% cuts in global warming pollution by 2030.
The dialog involves presentations from the two invited speakers, and the second hour will be moderated by Dr. King as a question, answer, and dialog session with questions from the audience. Dr. Shaw leads the Texas agency that would be a large part of implementing planning for the Clean Power Plan, but that does not support the CPP. At EDF, John Hall works for an organization that supports the Clean Power Plan.
Click here to lean how you can participate in person or via an online streaming video.
Recent Blogs and Editorials
How much can the next president influence the U.S. energy system?
March 3, 2016: There have been dramatic changes in the U.S. energy system under our current president – a big drop in the use of coal, a boom in domestic oil and gas development from fracking, and the rapid spread of renewable energy.
But in terms of influencing energy technology deployment, the next president will have a lot less influence than you might expect.
When it comes to educating U.S. citizens on energy’s relationship to the broader economy, though, the next president could have a great impact. But I’m not holding my breath. In fact, I’d say it’s likely not going to happen.
Here I pose a few relevant questions about energy and the economy that could be asked of our next president and suggest some answers.
The stay on the Clean Power Plan: A mountain out of a molehill
February 21, 2016: Much of the hyperbole over the Supreme Court’s stay of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) is making a mountain out of a molehill. The CPP is very significant politically, legally, but its CO2 goals are trivial in the grand scheme of sustainable consumption patterns, technological capability, and stated goals (not commitments) at Conference of Parties global climate talks.
The CPP targets are a piece of cake. And I say this as someone that is not a techno-optimist in the sense that technology alone will not solve all socioeconomic problems.
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Thank you very much for your time. As always, please contact me for more information about how you can be involved in and contribute to my research program and student researchers (they need food!).
Sincerely,
Carey W. King, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Energy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
careyking@mail.utexas.edu, 512.471.5468, careyking.com, @CareyWKing
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My research takes a systems approach to describe the role of energy and energy technologies in our past and future. This approach provides the best way to both address questions about our future economy and environment as well as understand how individual technologies can and cannot affect the macro-scale and long-run trends that will frame our future options. I seek understanding of the relationships among:
- energy resources and technologies,
- population demographics,
- water and food,
- macroeconomic factors, and
- implications of internalizing environmental externalities.
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REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/PowerDialogTexas
Attend in person: Texas’ Power Dialog event will be hosted on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). The event will take place on Monday, April 4, 2016, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the Will C. Hogg Building (WCH) Room 1.120 at UT-Austin.
Attend online: This event will be streamed Live via UT’s Lectures Online system. You can view the presentation via most browsers that handle HTML5 or Flash video. The full live link is: http://tinyurl.com/040416
WHAT IS IT?
The University of Texas’ Energy Institute invites you to participate in a national dialog on energy being hosted at universities across the United States.
The Power Dialog will engage approximately 10,000 students in face-to-face dialog with state-level regulators and policy experts in all fifty states. The topic? Implementing the Clean Power Plan, requiring 32% cuts in global warming pollution by 2030. The recent U.S. Supreme Court action questions the legality of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The State of Texas was one of the lead states (among 26 total) that challenged the Clean Power Plan. Texas is one of the most important states for energy technology and policy.
As institutions of higher learning, it is the responsibility of Texas’ Universities to help our students understand energy and environmental issues that will affect their future.
This is not a lobbying or advocacy event, but rather a way to engage our students in a unique and important learning opportunity. Thus, the purpose of this dialog is to understand the reasons and justifications for and against the Clean Power Plan. Why does Texas oppose the CPP? Why should Texas support it?
The participants leading the Dialog
• Dr. Bryan Shaw, Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• John Hall, Texas State Director, Clean Energy, for Environmental Defense Fund
• Dr. Carey King (moderating), Research Scientist and Assistant Director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at
Austin
The dialog model is as follows: A two-hour conversation. The first hour will involve presentations from the two invited speakers. The second hour will be moderated by Dr. King as a question, answer, and dialog session with questions from the audience. Dr. Shaw leads the Texas agency that would be a large part of implementing planning for the Clean Power Plan, but that does not support the CPP. At EDF, John Hall works for an organization that supports the Clean Power Plan.
How you can participate
Students from colleges and universities across the state of Texas studying energy and environmental policy are invited to attend and participate in this important discussion. You can participate in person or watch via an online stream. We ask faculty to register the number of students from their class who plan to attend. REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/PowerDialogTexas
Attend in person: Texas’ Power Dialog event will be hosted on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). The event will take place on Monday, April 4, 2016, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the Will C. Hogg Building (WCH) Room 1.120 at UT-Austin.
Attend online: This event will be streamed Live via UT’s Lectures Online system. You can view the presentation via most browsers that handle HTML5 or Flash video. The full live link is: http://tinyurl.com/040416
More information about computer system requirements is available here: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/lecturesonline/students/
system-requirements/.
Please feel free to share this information with other faculty in your institution that you think might be interested.
Further information
More detail on the national event can be found at http://www.bard.edu/cep/powerdialog/
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