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 1, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
“America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without; for I see clearly that the combined foreign world could not beat her down. But the savage, wolfish parties alarm me. Owning no law but their own will, more and more...
Dec 20, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
[Part 1 of this post is here.] This will be the last blog post for 2024, so here’s a gift suggestion for the holidays. Consider helping someone you love develop a greater appreciation for “option value” as a public good. It sounds complicated and...
Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
Because affordable, reliable electric service is an essential element of our lives, voters tend to worry about it, and to react strongly to the risk of its loss. The provision of energy services over a centralized network of transmission lines is a collective service,...
