MCS Policy Center Director Jonathan Rubin presented a talk describing the current state of Maine’s electric vehicles and infrastructure to the Maine State Chamber of Commerce’s Energy Summit on April 26, 2019 at the Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell, Maine. With a new legislature and administration in place, Maine energy policy is a priority in Augusta […]
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A new article discussing the “Implications of U.S. biofuels policy for sustainable transportation energy in Maine and the Northeast” is published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews by authors Binod Neupane of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Jonathan Rubin of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Drop-in biofuels that are compatible with the existing vehicle […]
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Professor Jonathan Rubin, Policy Center Director, was re-appointed for a second 3 year term as Chair of the Environment and Energy Section, ADC00, of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Environment and Energy Section is part of the Planning and Environment Group. It consists of eight committees […]
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Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and professor of economics, and chair of the Environment and Energy Section, U.S. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, will be one of the experts presenting on transportation at the Washington, D.C. conference, U.S. Energy Policy in the 2016 Elections and Beyond: Incremental or […]
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Keystone Pipeline and Low Carbon Fuels: An Update on Transportation Energy Policy February 1 at 3pm 107 Norman Smith Hall Speaker: Jonathan Rubin, Professor, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics Download the Transportation Energy Seminar flyer The use of energy in transportation continues to be one of the largest contributors to U.S. Green House […]
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Professor Jonathan Rubin is quoted in an Oct. 24 article in the Bangor Daily News on the issue of producing wood-based fuel. The article discusses the experience of the Old Town mill and UMaine’s biorefinery research program to produce cellulosic, or wood-based, ethanol and the current market outlook for ethanol. Read the full article here: http://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/24/the-point/is-there-fuel-in-those-trees-maines-forests-distant-hopes-of-alternative-fuel-revolution/
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MCS Policy Center Professor Jonathan Rubin was quoted in the Bangor Daily News on increased passenger traffic in Bangor and Portland airports. See the article: http://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/17/business/bangor-portland-airports-report-increased-passenger-counts/
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Upcoming Policy Fellows for Fall 2015 Thursday, October 1st: Patrick Woodcock Director Maine State Energy Office Wednesday, November 18th: Sara Gideon Asst. Majority Leader Maine House of Representatives
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Current low oil prices are drawing attention. Prof. Jonathan Rubin was interviewed in the Maine Sun Journal for an article on Maine energy prices: “Low-cost heating oil to fuel household spending.” Read the article here: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/0001/11/30/low-cost-heating-oil-fuel-household-spending/1773683
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Jonathan Rubin recently gave a presentation at the Automated Vehicle Symposium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which featured research and prototypes of unmanned vehicles. Below is the automated vehicle and the HID (human interface device) showing green as it operates at 60 mph with neither hands on the steering wheel nor feet on the pedals. And at the 2015 Transportation Conference in California […]
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