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...
Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Finally, pundits are focusing less on policy victory or convincing voters that their political adversaries are evil, and more on the issue of whether our liberal democracy can be saved, and if so, how. Until recently, those at the forefront of the effort to preserve...
Oct 6, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
U.S. electric customers are facing sharp rate increases, and they are not happy about it. Climate change is part of the problem, but most of it boils down to market forces: too much projected demand for the projected supply. Those supply and demand projections, in...
