Congress Must Advance Bold Power Sector Targets
To limit the severity of climate impacts to come, we need ambitious climate goals—and we need ambitious climate actions to match. Right now, we’re long on vision but short on action, leaving us sickeningly clear-eyed about the costs and consequences of our steady stumbling failure to bridge the two. One place this divergence couldn’t be […]
We Have an Infrastructure Plan
Wind turbine blades wind their way by train through Denver. Photo: Department of Energy photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL Infrastructure Week, meet Infrastructure Plan. Celebrate the yawning gap. The former was once a bright light in a darkening swirl, fading to a whisper of a hope in a rising cacophony of disrepair, ending as […]
The Texas Power Outages Were A “Wake-Up Call” Only Because Decisionmakers Everywhere Keep Hitting Snooze
Jonathan Cutrer/Flickr This 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 their effect. Everybody wants to know how in the world something like this came to pass. But despite rapid and confident finger pointing, […]
