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...
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...
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...
Mar 20, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
The U.S. electricity system has enjoyed several decades characterized by flat (overall) demand, sharply declining costs in less polluting forms of generation, and the presence of firm, mostly legacy gas-fired backup generation on the grid. In most places, these forces...
