Brad Handler

3 weeks ago | mining.com | Jackson Chen |Brad Handler |Morgan D. Bazilian

The Trump Administration’s recently released executive order (EO) “Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production” directs federal agencies to take steps to speed up and support new mining and processing development projects. Although these are largely focused on asserting the executive branch’s authority to streamline permitting and to use Federal lands for mining, the EO also sets the basis for the use of public funding to support projects.

Oct 24, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Brad Handler |Juliana Reid

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Brad HandlerOctober 24, 2024The following remarks were prepared for the Houston Strategy Forum’s “Carbon Conclave” held on October 22, in Houston, TX.

Apr 5, 2024 | illuminem.com | Brad Handler

A set of entrepreneurs in the U.S. are considering how carbon finance and the Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) can be harnessed in new ways to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Their target: oil and natural gas wells. These entrepreneurs are looking across the “lifecycle” of a well or a whole oilfield and, in the process, targeting different GHGs. Plugging older and idled wells primarily aims to avoid methane and other fugitive emissions and leaks.

Feb 8, 2024 | coloradopolitics.com | Morgan D. Bazilian |Simon Lomax |Brad Handler

Ten years ago this month, Colorado became the first U.S. state to directly tackle methane emissions from oil and natural gas production. It started with an unlikely coalition of environmental groups, major oil and gas companies and state air quality officials, who worked together to develop new regulations targeting methane. Those regulations, finalized in February 2014, were hailed as a “model for the nation.”But that was just the beginning.

Dec 5, 2023 | barrons.com | Isabel Guajardo |Brad Handler |Morgan D. Bazilian

U.S. EV Makers Are Still Stuck on China. The Stakes Are Rising. By Isabel Guajardo, Brad Handler and Morgan BazilianDec 05, 2023, 1:52 pm ESTThe idea that electric vehicles are effectively a giveaway to China has become a talking point in the Republican presidential primary, and the wider ongoing trade war with China has gained a level of bipartisan agreement.