Aug 6, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
One of the few low-carbon energy technologies that the Trump administration is not actively trying to hobble is nuclear power. (Geothermal energy is another.) Nuclear power boosters have been heartened recently by the tech industry’s interest in 24/7 clean power to...
Jul 2, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Climate “tipping points” are events that could rapidly accelerate warming or suddenly change the climate in ways to which humans would have trouble adapting. I list a few of those potential tipping points in a note in Climate of Contempt, including “the...
Jul 2, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
As the tragedy that is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act works its way through Congress, let’s talk about something equally cheery: namely, fears of climate disasters. Climate “tipping points” are events that could rapidly accelerate warming or suddenly...
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...
