Jun 17, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The U.S. Senate is currently considering the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). The version passed by the House would drastically scale back the energy infrastructure investment subsidies contained in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The Senate is trying to cobble...
Jun 15, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
So far 2025 has seen a lot of “pivoting” away from clean energy and toward natural gas. Los Angeles Times writer Sammy Roth recently documented one such pivot, by wind energy champion and conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz. Tech industry giants who led the charge...
Jun 1, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Why can’t we be transparent about tradeoffs? The task of delivering power that is reliable, affordable, and clean is complicated. Anyone who wants to understand it can do so, but they must travel along a lengthy learning curve. When you get far enough along that...
May 20, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
The indiscriminate cuts to the executive branch being made by Elon Musk’s DOGE operation are crippling the government’s ability to provide essential public goods to consumers, and to protect consumers from the predations of unregulated markets. As reported recently in...
May 9, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Over the last few months Republicans in Congress have been writing strongly worded letters to each other about the various green energy subsidies created by the 2022 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. In early March, 21 House Republicans urged Speaker Mike...
May 2, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
This is the second in a series of posts discussing new books that address what we know, and don’t know, about today’s energy and climate politics. You can find the explanatory introduction to this series here. Today we focus on rural resistance to the...
