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=Natural Gas DAs (Berthiaume)= = = = = Cases that provide incentives in the electricity sector will change natural gas consumption and prices. This group will research disadvantages in the area of natural gas. Alex Gonzales, Michael Harris, Toby Jacob, Rachel Logan, Charlie Minato, Edward Mugica, Takumi Murayama, Matt Murphy, Sam Page, Crystal Xia

=Coal DAs (Clark)= This group will produce DAs to decreasing coal consumption. We will work on a US economy DA, a railroads DA, and an Australia relations DA.

Jamil Ahmed, Andy Amoranto, Anuj Bapodra, Val Bisharat, Kayla Janyk, Neeraja Koneru, Fayzan Rab, Sayaan Saha, Nahum Seifeselassie, Junaid Tayyab =Efficiency CP/Alternative Energy Disadvantages (Culpepper)= Most every debate amongst experts regarding climate change and alternative fuels attempts to resolve the question of energy efficiency versus a shift to alternative fuels. The natural literature-based counter plan is to advocate energy efficiency through a wide variety of mechanisms we will explore in the generic. This group will also create disadvantages (such as Food Prices) to alternative energies which will serve as net-benefits to the efficiency CP. If you are interested into the policy literature about the topic as quickly as possible, this is the generic for you.

Jeff Boxer, Phillip Forrester, Stacy Kapustina, Elli Liput, Ben Lopez, Farzon Lotfi, Abby Schoenfeld, Alyssa Schwartz, Gabrielle Tandet, Sarah Ungureit =Warming (Greenstein)= Is it hot? Is it cold? Is either good or bad? We will explore these questions and many more...

Jennifer Armstrong, Eric Berggren, Ishita Chordia, Alexandra Evans, J.B. Hardin, Andrew Kamel, Jonathan Ma, Jeff Nagel, Amy Senders, Vikram Singh =Oil (Kernoff)= This file will contain disadvantages and advantages for oil prices, including scenarios for different countries and different behaviors that are affected by oil prices. It will certainly include evidence about Saudi Arabia and Russia, as well as other significant producer and consumer economies.

Regan Bozman, Kylah Broughton, Forrest Brown, Yusef Camara, Rebecca Drapkin, Sam Fishell, Jillian Jordan, Dan Powers, Aman Sharma, Lewis Sharp

=States/Federalism (Martin)= The states counterplan will be the ultimate arbiter of what affirmatives are run on this year's topic. Any case lacking a strong warrant for federal action will find itself quickly relegated to recycling bins nationwide. By signing up for this generic you can be one of the researchers who will make every 2A lay awake at night wondering why they keep losing to this old yet awesome strategy. However, this group will also give affirmatives the tools to effectively answer the counterplan by preparing disads to state action and arguments in favor of a federal approach to incentivizing alternative energy. The research literature is rich, the cards are abundant, and this will be a core negative strategy all year.

Luke Allen, Tyler Bagley, Ken Bailey, Kyle Deming, Alex Gulakov, Francis Jin, Alex Kats-Rubin, Hannah Nelson, Matt Rosenzweig, Elliot Stoller, Alex Werner =Politics (Olney)= The primary focus of this group will be the elections DA. This will include constructing link scenarios in both directions, as well significant work developing a variety of impact arguments for both candidates. Some time will also be spent writing traditional agenda politics DAs, at least one in each direction.

Asad Ahmed, Risha Bhattacharjee, Alex Blank, Nick Donlan, Nathan Dupont, Joy Goel, Neha Malik, Ian Miller, Laurel Mills, Peter Vale =Trade (Olsen)= This group will put together two types of disads. The first will deal with the consequences of regulation affirmatives. It will likely argue that the U.S. would place environmental tariffs on developing countries who do not meet the plan's environmental standards. The second will deal with the consequences of positive incentive cases. This could focus on the backlash to energy subsidies, the perception of U.S. backing out of the commitment to regulate C02 after the last G-8 summit, etc. Alexis Barber, Adit Chipalkatti, Sneha Dasgupta, Jeremy Guenette-Deutsch, Dustin Lee, Daniel Lee, Christine Poveda, Hao Shen, Abhinav Shrestha, Alex Zavell

=Deep Ecology K (Quinn)= Although the literature here contains many conflicting philosophies, this group will primarily be concerned with the following question: given that being "green" has become so popular lately due in large part to Al Gore's spiffy crane, in what ways are policy solutions to environmental problems reliant upon strands of human-centered thinking that played a large part in the original production of those problems? We'll try to avoid utopianism, bumper-sticker environmentalism, and weird New Age cults, so we'll hopefully get to watch parts of I Heart Huckabees or go blow up some whaling boats. Get ready to dive into some books and stop eating meat.

Jenn Beard, Amanda Bogan, Jiajia Huang, Kelly Knight, Grace Labriola, Liz Lusk, Ed Powell, Emma Vance, Wesley Wilson, Grace Zhang

= Financial Issues (Serrano)= This Generic will be responsible for writing a Business Confidence DA, a Fiscal Discipline DA, Spending trade off DAs - and in particular agency specific trade off DAs, and general economy impact work.

Alex Ades, Ben Benson, Balan Budwal, Mia Kunst, Paul Lee, Jim Peterson, Steve Quam, Peter Wang, Jackie Wu, Simon You

= //ecology, technology, and community// (shanahan)= our elective draws, among others, on the radical works of murray bookchin (activism, social ecology and post-scarcity anarchy), david graeber (anarchy, anthropology, and activism), martin heidegger (ontology and technology), ladelle mcwhorter (askesis, foucault, and heidegger), vine deloria, jr. (indigenous activism and scholarship) //to kritik// government incentives and alternative energy in debate and other political spaces Brad Bolman, Brendan Burke, Benjamin Chang, Bob Ciborowski, Gabriella Friedman, Cory Hansen, Harsh Jhaveri, Taylor Layton, Matthew Malek, Patrick McCleary, Will Miller, Krishnan Ramanujan, Alex Resar, Elliot Stein

=Eco-Managerialism (Turner)= We will research critical arguments regarding the discursive construction of environmental advantage areas and incentive mechanisms. This will likely include particular emphasis on climate science, eco-modernization, sustainability, and the securitization of resource use.

Richie Choy, Lauren Dandridge, Thejas Hiremath, William Huang, Sam Jaffe-Goldstein, Ram Jayakumar, Marc Milani, Adi Sudarshan, Franklin Zheng, Ogi Zugic