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Elan Sykes

Director of Energy and Climate Policy

Elan Sykes is the Director of Energy and Climate Policy at PPI. Elan works on energy deployment, innovation, and decarbonization. Prior to joining PPI, Elan served as a researcher at the Climate Leadership Council where he focused on carbon pricing, global climate policy, and the intersection of climate and trade policies.  Before that, Elan served as an intern at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel.

Elan received an AB cum laude from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs in 2018, where he wrote a thesis examining Eastern Mediterranean energy and security politics.

Recent Work

In the News  |  March 24, 2025

Sykes in The Washington Post: Democrats once killed a pipeline in the Northeast. Now they may help Trump revive it.

  • Elan Sykes
Blog  |  March 4, 2025

Energy Costs Come First: Data by State

  • Elan Sykes
Press Release  |  February 11, 2025

PPI Calls for a Pragmatic, Cost-First Approach to Clean Energy Transition

  • Elan Sykes
Publication  |  February 11, 2025

Energy Costs Come First: A New Approach to Environmental Justice

  • Elan Sykes
Press Release  |  July 24, 2024

PPI Applauds Manchin-Barrasso’s Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024

  • Elan Sykes
Press Release  |  July 2, 2024

PPI Lauds Department of Energy’s East Coast Geothermal Pilot Program

  • Elan Sykes Alec Evans
Press Release  |  February 13, 2024

PPI Proposes Path Forward on White House LNG Export Pause

  • Elan Sykes
Op-Ed  |  January 18, 2024

Sykes and Brown for The Messenger: Uncompromising Activism: The New Threat to the Environment, Geopolitics and the Biden Administration

  • Elan Sykes Neel Brown
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