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Certainty (about energy policy) closes minds and inhibits learning

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...

An Old Lie That Never Goes Away

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...

Strongly worded letters and the Inflation Reduction Act

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...

How Does It End? Five Politics Book Reviews — Part 2, Rural Resistance

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...

How Does It End? Five Politics Book Reviews — Part 1, Introduction

May 1, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition

A Texas faculty friend who worries about our political descent keeps asking me  “So, how does it end?” He shares my sense that today’s assault on our liberal democratic institutions is more than a swing of the pendulum to the political right. It...

The Speech, The Censure, The Rebuttal … and the energy transition

Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition

The national GOP has taken a fairly sharp turn against green energy in the last few years, suggesting that persuading GOP politicians to support a lower-carbon energy future is unlikely in the near term. Instead, it looks like the only near term path to stronger...
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