This edition feat. unique policy research insights exploring whether renewables are contributing to rising electricity costs. Short answer: no, it's rate design. Also, welcoming Didem Nisanci!
Check out the highlights of 2025 in every area of our work and get practical takeaways for how you can get involved in 2026. Thank you to everyone who helped us make a significant impact last year!
En-ROADS workshops help leaders build stronger understanding of climate solutions, deepen personal connection, and increase motivation to take climate action and influence policy decisions.
Christopher R. Knittel, Faculty Director of the MIT Climate Policy Center, discusses his personal and professional reaction to higher gas prices, noting consumer behavior adjustment as an effect.
Professor Catherine Wolfram, Faculty Affiliate for the MIT Climate Policy Center, shares her expertise on the trajectory for fuel prices, oil markets, the Iran conflict, and climate change.
Christopher R. Knittel says academic research found the Jones Act added ~1.5¢/gal. to gasoline prices. “It’s not a huge number, but adds up given how much gasoline we consume.”
MIT Professor Christopher R. Knittel and graduate student Fischer J. Espiritu Argosino discuss evidence-based critique and suggestions for rate design in Massachusetts ahead of MA DPU 25-200.
MIT Professor Christoph Reinhart, MIT Climate Policy Center Faculty Affiliate, is the PI for a MITEI project on building grid operation and planning.
This policy brief is informed by a 2024 research paper which finds that strategically planted salt marshes can provide protection from floods & have $2-$10 returns in benefits for every dollar spent.
Anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies overlooked insights from people health care is meant to reach.
