Feb 10, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The poet Robert Burns once wrote, “Be merry, I advise. But as we be merry, may we also be wise.” As Republicans aim to roll back climate policy progress it is increasingly difficult for the climate coalition to be merry. The fire hose of frightening news...
Feb 5, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
When people think of renewable energy they usually think of wind and solar power first, and then maybe hydroelectric power. And those three sources of electricity, along with biomass, constitute the largest sources of renewable power in the U.S. electricity mix. But...
Jan 30, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
One of the most distressing aspects of today’s politics is the way it has reduced the willingness of people to come together in an emergency or disaster. Even as the wildfires in Los Angeles continued to devastate people and whole communities, some congressional some...
Jan 25, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
As Donald Trump takes a wrecking ball to policies designed to advance the energy transition, Democrats struggle to make sense of today’s politics. Two stories in my energy news feed illustrate that confusion. One quotes climate activists lamenting Joe...
Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
One source of frustration for the climate coalition – and the ideological left more generally – is the amount of money and coordinated effort that the ideological right has put into political and ideological persuasion over the last four decades. Chapter 4 of my book...
Jan 15, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Climate of Contempt argues that in order to develop a full understanding of the energy transition and its politics, one has to engage people who hold a diversity of views on the subject. Engage people directly, not just read about their views. Every time an energy or...
