Mar 1, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Like much of the rest of the country, the ERCOT region of Texas is projecting massive growth in electricity demand, driven mostly (though not exclusively*) by new data servers. The servers are part of the tech sector race to provide (power-hungry) A.I. services to the...
Feb 20, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Every once in a while, on a whim, I decide to assemble all of the stories in my energy news feed from a single month regarding local opposition to energy transition projects — new wind farms, solar farms, transmission lines, nuclear plants, hydrogen plants,...
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...
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...
Dec 5, 2024 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Note: This is the third in a series of posts auditing the political analysis (and corresponding prescription) in Climate of Contempt. The first two were here and here.] Longtime denizens of #Climate and #Energy social media communities will be familiar with the...
