CETEP Data Resources
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U.S. Coal Plant Retirement
Background Coal-generating capacity in the United States has fallen steadily since its peak in 2011. In 2010, coal-fired generation accounted for more than half of electricity produced in the United States. A decade later, that fell to around a quarter of total generation. This shift has been driven primarily by the retirement of existing coal-fired…
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The Environmental Policy Uncertainty (EPU) Index
The Environmental Policy Uncertainty (EPU) Index measures changes in uncertainty surrounding environmental policy in the United States by analyzing more than 300 million newspaper articles published since January 1985. Using the NewsBank news aggregator, which includes approximately 15,000 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, the index tracks how frequently environmental policy uncertainty is discussed over…