Electricity market deregulation promised to bring more affordable and reliable electricity to consumers. A quarter of a century after deregulation began, has its promise delivered for all Americans?
Zoning Rules Stifle Urban Clean Energy. Can The Rules Be Rewritten?
Outmoded and often discriminatory zoning laws block clean energy development in low-income urban neighborhoods. An effort is underway to update rules, and enable clean energy equity.
Sale Of Largest East Coast Refinery Closes With Last Minute Drama
As Hilco and PES’s creditors squabbled over the refinery’s final sale price, concern grew that the sale would falter.
How a Green New Deal Could Redraw America’s Map
Climate change, and the policies to address it, will change where we live and work and how we produce energy and food. Two environmental designers discuss an atlas of our country’s future.
Clean Energy Generates Jobs. Why Does Washington Look Away? (Forbes)
Efforts to stifle clean energy development extend into the fabric of federal government.
How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy
Political scientist Leah Stokes examines interest groups’ power to shape, and resist, progressive energy policy.
The Struggle for Local Control Over Energy Development
Energy projects bring economic opportunity, but host communities often suffer disproportionate health and environmental impacts. An expert in environmental regulation looks at community efforts to exert control over energy development.
Will The Clean Energy Transition Bring Energy Equality?
Nobel Laureate Daniel Kammen, head of U.C. Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, discusses efforts to build clean energy solutions that meet the social and developmental needs of the communities they serve.
A Preview of Key Energy Challenges for the 2020s (Forbes)
The roots of fossil fuel’s recent challenges lie in environmental concerns and opposition to big projects from state governments, as in New York, but also from the growing competitiveness of alternatives
With Ample Drama, Largest East Coast Refinery Meets Its End (Forbes)
The explosion should have marked the end of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, a business that had emerged from bankruptcy just a year before.