5 Tips for Working in the Trump Administration Like an Absolute Pro
Cartoon: Justin BilickiAre you a new political appointee looking to join your administration peers in governing by deregulatory splash? Does the idea of winning the title of Best Worst Rule-Maker of...
View ArticleNew Mexico’s Clean Energy Opportunity Knocks
Bureau of Land Management (Flickr)Look out, clean energy leaders, there’s a new governor in town—and this one campaigned atop a wind turbine. Governor Lujan Grisham’s campaign included scaling a wind...
View ArticleSB 489 is the Clean Energy Catalyst New Mexico Needs
BLM New Mexico/Flickr BLM New Mexico/FlickrIn New Mexico, out of the crucible of power-sector transformation, economic vision, and climate imperative comes SB 489, the Energy Transition Act, a bold...
View ArticleNew Mexico Commits to 100
This is where the dazzling new policy that commits New Mexico to 100-percent carbon-free electricity begins: at an uneconomic coal plant, and a bankrupt coal mine, with a collection of workers and...
View ArticleProdded by Coal Industry, the EPA Decides Mercury Is Fine, Just Fine. Remind...
Lyntha Scott Eiler/Flickr Photo: Lyntha Scott Eiler/FlickrFrom the gaping maw of coal baron greed slithers another brazen ploy. This time: guiding our nation’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to...
View Article5 Ways the Trump Administration Will Eviscerate Science and Undermine Climate...
Official White House Photos by Joyce N. BoghosianThis week, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power...
View ArticleWith New Power Plant Rule, Trump Administration Plumbs the Depths of the...
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the final version of its “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) rule, a carbon emissions standard for fossil fuel-fired power...
View ArticleHow Do Power Grids Beat the Summer Heat?
Credit: iStockphoto/Pleasureofart In the searing heart of summer, when blazing days stack end on end and the air hangs heavy and still, the power grid gets put to the test as people turn to air...
View ArticleUtility Restoration Workers a Large Factor in Speed—and Cost—of Hurricane...
Hurricane Irma restoration in Fort Lauderdale, FL, on Sept. 11, 2017. Credit: Florida Power & Light.In the face of severe storms, utilities are investing billions of dollars in grid hardening to...
View ArticleCalifornia Wildfires and Power Outages Signal Long Road Ahead, But Climate...
California's massive Thomas Fire was one of more than 2,000 fires sparked by power grid equipment in the last few years. Forest Service Photo by Kari GreerIn California, this fall marked the third...
View ArticleThe US Power Sector’s Decade In Review: Clean Energy Ascendant, Fossil Fuels...
Omari Spears/UCSFor the long-plodding electricity sector, “transition” doesn’t begin to convey the stunning magnitude of what this decade just saw transpire. At the same time, the magnitude of what’s...
View ArticleOne Way to Boost Renewables? Let Flexible Demand Lend a Helping Hand
Flexible demand programs can boost renewables integration at the neighborhood and grid level. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NRELThe power grid has been designed, operated, and financially oriented around...
View ArticleBlowing the Cover Off the “Cleanest Air” Sparkle of the Trump Administration
Photo: samer daboul/PexelsFirst, a fact: People want clean air. And who can blame them—in the United States more than 100,000 people still die from air pollution each year. Notably, the Trump...
View ArticleWith New Manipulation of Benefit-Cost Analysis, the Trump EPA Attempts to...
Photo: Loco Steve/FlickrNobody reads the fine print. Or that’s the apparent thesis of the Trump administration’s EPA, anyway, in its newly proposed spin on benefit-cost analysis. Here, now, the agency...
View ArticleThe EPA’s Cost-Benefit Proposal Is Corrupt—And Deeply Consequential. Call It...
Official White House Photo by Tia DufourThis June, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rulemaking, Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering...
View ArticleWith EPA Methane Rollbacks, Natural Gas Bridge Becomes Just Another Piece of...
Jonathan Cutrer/FlickrToday, the EPA is finalizing rollbacks to methane standards governing oil and gas operations, dealing a major blow to climate, public health, and—oh, what’s that?—the fossil fuel...
View ArticleHurricane Laura Threatens Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure
Hurricane Laura via NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East.Hurricane Laura is projected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late tonight along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Conditions will be severe,...
View ArticleWhat’s the Role of Hydrogen in the Clean Energy Transition?
Los Angeles looking from Hollywood at dawn Getty ImagesUpdated 12/11/20 for clarity on fuel cells If you follow energy transition conversations, you may have noticed that hydrogen is having a bit of a...
View ArticleNew Documents Reveal the Spectacular Unraveling of a Final Trump Polluter...
This is the story of how the Trump EPA’s final attempt at a coal bailout unraveled in spectacular fashion, just weeks before the administration’s clock ran out. This is the story of how the Trump EPA...
View ArticleThe Texas Power Outages Were A “Wake-Up Call” Only Because Decisionmakers...
Jonathan Cutrer/FlickrThis February, a deep and sustained chill sent the Texas energy system into a week-long torpor, which set off a series of cascading failures that were devastating and deadly in...
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