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, […]
New Documents Reveal the Spectacular Unraveling of a Final Trump Polluter Hand-Out
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 tried so hard to subvert the interests of the public for the mirage of the benefit of a select […]
