Nov 15, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock, is caught in a tug-of-war between combatants on both sides of the climate and energy fight. Its travails reflect an intensifying partisan divide over renewable energy and climate risk. And it illustrates the importance of...
Nov 10, 2025 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Ideological and social media push us to picture our political adversaries as cartoon villains. Censored news + censored online communities = mistaken certainty. But if we understand what is happening, perhaps we can break this vicious cycle. Still, that is not easy to...
Nov 5, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Seven years ago I wrote a piece for The Regulatory Review called “Energy Policy’s Orphaned Good Idea.” It argued that the only reason why the 1935 Federal Power Act didn’t authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to permit interstate transmission...
Oct 31, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Given the Supreme Court that we have, the United States’ transition to authoritarianism can only be stopped at the ballot box. But inside ideological media bubbles there is a disconnect between how people vote and how they feel about our descent into a more...
Oct 25, 2025 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
It is no secret that the fragmentation of our media environment along ideological lines is undermining scientific literacy and belief and scientific truths. We have seen this in climate and energy policy for decades. But today it is even more pronounced in public...
Oct 18, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Amid the chaos and constant alarm that is MAGA GOP governance, the news from the World Meteorological Association (WMO) about the large increase in atmospheric carbon didn’t get a lot of press attention. But it is worrying to anyone who understands climate...
