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Freedom Delivers a Cleaner Future
Economic freedom leads to a cleaner environment. It allows ownership, which encourages stewardship.
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Drew Bond
StaffExecutive Chairman & Co-Founder · C3 Solutions
Drew Bond is executive chairman and co-founder of C3 Solutions. His experience spans energy policy, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship, including service at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is also co-founder and CEO of PowerField Energy.
Latest essays
Energy
Three Keys to Fixing What Went Wrong in Texas
Whether you blame the changing climate or just bad weather, we need a power grid that is better prepared for emergencies. Strengthening the grid won’t be easy, but it can be done.
Environment
Reinstating Regulations Can Hurt the Environment
With the hard-fought election now over, and resulting narrow majorities in Congress, it’s time to put politics and pride aside in favor of real progress towards a cleaner environment. Policymakers on both sides of the aisle should allow innovation to be unleashed.
Infrastructure
An Architecture Firm’s Push to Build Net-Zero Apartments—on a Budget
“By driving down consumption and producing electricity from its solar panels, Front Flats is designed to generate its own power."
Energy
What President Biden can Learn from George W. Bush on Climate
"The right way is to adopt policies that spur investment in the new technologies needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more cost-effectively in the longer term without placing unreasonable burdens on American consumers and workers in the short term."
Environment
An Economy Improves By Building Markets, Not Imposing Taxes
A better approach would use the power of markets to reduce carbon. Unleash free-market competition by reducing regulatory barriers, streamlining and accelerating permitting for clean energy, and getting rid of all energy subsidies.
Environment
Fix Flood Insurance Before It Swamps The Federal Budget Again
"So, even if you don’t live on a barrier island in the Atlantic but instead in the dry expanse of the Arizona desert, you’re on the hook for flooding anywhere in the U.S. Even worse is that NFIP is $36 billion in debt, and that amount increases each year."
Conservation
California Needs Common Sense to Fight Fires
Policymakers at the state and federal level are pursuing a "zero burn emissions" policy. They would rather pretend that they will have the ability to extinguish wildfires than to admit that they need to eliminate fuel through controlled burns before fire season starts.
Energy
How to Invest in Research and Development
"When it comes to investing in our future, it’s clear that federal research and development pays off in many ways."