Dear John,
 
Greetings from the BPC Energy Team. As you can see from this quarter’s newsletter, there are important shifts underway in Congress on climate and clean energy policy. Technology innovation is becoming a bipartisan area of agreement on Capitol Hill. This emerging policy momentum is one of the reasons I’ve recently returned to lead the BPC Energy Project, after more than eight years in the private sector developing clean energy technologies. You can read a little more about my background and some of the projects we are particularly excited about in the newsletter below. We have a number of energy initiatives underway, and I look forward to sharing more about our work in the coming months!
 
Best regards,
 
Sasha
 
Americans continue to advance into a society driven by technology and ever-evolving scientific knowledge. Proper regulation is part of any transition, but without trusted non-partisan technical advice, lawmakers may inadvertently handicap these technological advancements. Congress has recently taken major steps towards enhancing its science and technology capabilities with recent legislation and a Modernization Committee recommendation calling for the reinstatement of a restructured Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). Between 1964 and 1995, Congress received unfiltered and ongoing access to non-partisan scientific and technological expert advice from the OTA. This new report reviews the history of this office and why its absence is putting American competitiveness at risk.
 
BPC has convened an advisory council of industry, business, and policy leaders to explore the policy challenges and opportunities to advancing direct air capture technology—an innovative carbon removal approach that uses machines to remove carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere and store it safely underground or put it to commercial uses. Evidence suggests direct air capture has nearly unlimited carbon dioxide removal capacity and would set an upper limit for the cost of climate mitigation, but as a nascent industry, the technology cost and efficiency must be improved for it to be deployed more broadly.
 
“We are thrilled to have Sasha return to BPC to lead our energy portfolio,” said BPC President Jason Grumet. “His leadership and expertise in emerging energy markets, as well as experience driving energy and climate policy, will be invaluable to both BPC and the national debate.”
 
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