Jul 10, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Many writers and pundits (me included) have noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act will make electricity more expensive (by shifting project development costs from taxpayers to ratepayers) and slow growth in energy supply, just as future demand for...
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 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...
