2026-03-06
If policymakers in the US can agree on anything, it’s that they want more semiconductor plants (“fabs”) built in the US. The bipartisan CHIPS & Science Act promised hundreds of billions of dollars in federal subsidies to…
Last month we posted a Kiesling/Macey paper, which argued that perverse incentives for incumbents help keep energy supply constrained. A paper published last week by Dasom Ham, Owen Kay, and Catherine Hausman dovetails n…
When novel technologies get shoehorned into ill-fitting permitting systems, the results are rarely enviable. In a recent piece , Samuel Roland tours the byzantine landscape of state-level geothermal regulation. While som…
Around 23% of the terrestrial territory of the Netherlands is a protected area; to secure a permit to build near these areas, environmental review about nitrogen impacts are particularly important. The country used to us…
Another interesting thing about the paper discussed in item #4, about Dutch nitrogen regulation and residential building, is that it was written completely by AI! It’s part of the Autonomous Policy Evaluation Project (Pr…
The main thing Alex has been reading this week is the text of the Senate Banking Committee housing reform bill , for which he is deep in the details. It’s encouraging to see bipartisan movement on federal housing policy,…