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Publications
2025 Accelerating Green Steel Workshop Proceedings
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a research workshop on Accelerating Green Steel at Carnegie Mellon University. The workshop gathered experts on iron and steelmaking from around the globe on September 4-5, 2025. The workshop was co-hosted by the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research (CISR), with support from the Industrial Decarbonization Analysis, Benchmarking, and Action Partnership, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The workshop b
Downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Karplus, V and C Samaras (2025), ‘Downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘, in Gensler, G, S Johnson, U Panizza and B Weder di Mauro (eds), The Economic Consequences of The Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment, CEPR Press, Paris & London. View the chapter here.
New frontiers in research on industrial decarbonization
Armitage, Sara; Barrage, Lint; Burtraw, Dallas; Colmer, Jonathan; De Preux, Laure; Gillignham, Kenneth T.; Hawkins-Pierot, Jonathan; Holt, Charles; Karplus, Valerie J.; Löfgren, Åsa; Martin, Ralf; Miller, Nathan; Muûls, Mirabelle; Osborne, Matthew; Severnini, Edson; Shobe, Willian; Sileo, Grethcen; Smirnyagin, Vladimir; Stoerk Thomas; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Wagner, Katherine; Wagner, Ulrich J.; Wu, Xi (2025). New frontiers in research on industrial decarbonization. Science Vol. 39
Sustaining the Global Energy Transition
Valerie Karplus just published a new discussion paper entitled Sustaining the Global Energy Transition with the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. The paper considers the implications of high interest rates, trade tensions, and energy geopolitics for the deployment of technologies to decarbonize industries worldwide and argues for strategies that maintain momentum that are connected with objectives beyond climate alone. View the paper here . A related LinkedIn post about
Air Quality Policy Outcomes at U.S. Coal Power Plants
Read LEO member Dr. Joanna Slusarewicz's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.
Simulating regional workforce impacts of decarbonizing integrated steelmaking
Miles, Jillian; Combemale, Christophe; Karplus, Valerie J.; Pistorius, P. Chris (2025). Simulating regional workforce impacts of...
Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit
Zhang, Da; Karplus, Valerie J. (2025). Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit. Nature Energy....
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