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Can Trump Revive the Coal Industry? Lessons from the Petra Nova and Kemper...
During the campaign, President-elect Trump promised to revive the coal industry. As others have reported, gutting EPA regulations designed to protect public health and the climate will have little...
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Wind Keeps Creating Jobs, Even as We Pull Out of Paris
President Trump announced last week that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement because, he said, it would impose “draconian financial and economic burdens” on the US. This...
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7 Things We Expect to See in Rick Perry’s Unnecessary and Biased Grid Study
On April 14, Energy Secretary Rick Perry requested a 60-day “Study examining electricity markets and reliability.” The study was scheduled to be released on June 26, but it now appears it will be...
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Major Job Losses in Renewable Energy if Current Tax Plan Passes
In March 2017, I testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on how federal tax credits for renewable energy have been a key driver for the recent growth in the US wind and solar...
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Carbon Pricing is Key to Economic Viability of Xcel’s Nuclear Power Plants in...
The 671 MW Monticello Nuclear Generating Station is located along the Mississippi River 40 miles northwest of the Twin Cities and provides about 10 percent of Xcel’s electricity in the Upper Midwest....
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Seven Things People Got Wrong with UCS’‘Nuclear Power Dilemma’ Report
On November 8, UCS released The Nuclear Power Dilemma: Declining Profits, Plant Closures, and the Threat of Rising Carbon Emissions, which found that more than one-third of existing nuclear plants,...
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5 Reasons Why HB 6, Ohio’s Nuclear Plant Subsidy Proposal, Should Be Rejected
Photo: Nuclear Regulatory CommissionLast November, UCS released Nuclear Power Dilemma, which found that more than one-third of existing nuclear plants, representing 22 percent of total US nuclear...
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50% by 2035 National Renewable Electricity Standard Would Boost Economy and...
Photo: Omari Spears/UCSToday, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and several others introduced The Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2019, a bill that would more than double the supply of renewable energy...
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Maine Hits Clean Energy Grand Slam
Photo: stgermh/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 As a baseball fan, I’m looking forward to watching the best players in the world compete for bragging rights in the 90th Major League Baseball All-Star game tonight. As...
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US Solar Industry Poised to Lose 114,000 Jobs and Counting from COVID through...
Roland Balik/US Air ForceWith the US and global economy in free-fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the renewable energy industry is hemorrhaging projects and jobs at a faster rate than the overall...
View ArticleHouse Testimony: Renewable Electricity Standards are Delivering Significant...
Last week, I was invited to testify at the U.S. House of Representative’s Energy and Commerce Committee, Energy and Power Subcommittee’s hearing on “Laboratories of Democracy: The Economic Impacts of...
View ArticleEPA Clean Power Plan Underestimates Power of Renewable Energy to Reduce...
UCS released a new analysis today showing that strengthening the contribution from renewable energy can significantly increase the emissions reductions from the EPA’s 2014 Clean Power Plan. We found...
View ArticleGoogle and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Leaders and Fortune 500 Companies...
Q: What do Google, 223 other businesses, 14 attorneys general, 11 U.S. senators, and more than 25 environmental, public health, and clean energy organizations all have in common? A: They all told EPA...
View Article5 Reasons Why Colorado Should Increase—Not Roll Back—Its Renewable Energy...
UPDATE: (March 3, 11 a.m.): Good news! Yesterday, the Colorado House of Representative’s State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee voted against the proposed rollback of the state’s renewable...
View ArticleEIA Analysis Shows the EPA's Clean Power Plan Is Affordable, Renewable Energy...
A new Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis shows that renewable energy sources make the biggest contribution to achieving the EPA’s proposed emission reduction targets for existing power...
View ArticleFinancing Clean Energy: A Cost-Effective Tool for State Compliance with EPA’s...
A new UCS report released today shows how clean energy financing programs offer a promising avenue for scaling up investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency that can reap significant...
View ArticleXcel’s Plan to Cut Carbon 60 percent is Affordable and Will Benefit...
Growing up in Minnesota, I have very fond memories of going fishing with my Dad in the land of 10,000 lakes. Whether it was slaying crappies on Lake Minnetonka or catching walleyes on our summer trips...
View ArticleHurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and the Growing Risks of Storm Surge and Blackouts
Superstorm Sandy was a big wake-up call for the Northeast when it made landfall near Atlantic City, NJ, on October 29, 2012. In addition to the tragic loss of lives and property, Sandy caused billions...
View ArticleWhat Extending Federal Wind and Solar Tax Credits Means for the Clean Power...
Two new studies by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Rhodium Group show that the five-year extension of the federal production and investment tax credits (PTC and ITC) for wind...
View ArticleMinnesota Continues its National Leadership on the Clean Power Plan
Last week Governor Dayton promised to veto any legislation blocking or slowing efforts related to the Clean Power Plan. He also stated that he would “like to see Minnesota’s dependence on coal...
View ArticleNew Analysis Shows Fixing Illinois Clean Energy Policies Is Essential to Any...
There are some key flaws in a proposed energy plan that would prevent Illinois from moving toward a truly clean energy future. Our new analysis shows that fixing and strengthening the state's renewable...
View ArticleRenewable Energy to Surpass Coal and Nuclear by 2030: 7 Key Takeaways from...
I’ll remember 2016 as the year the Energy Information Administration turned the corner to show a bright future for renewable energy.
View ArticleA Powerful Investment: Clean Energy Financing in Maine, New Hampshire, and...
These three states could leverage $35 million of public funds into a $748 million investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects over the next 15 years.
View ArticleMethane Madness: 5 Reasons Why Natural Gas Doesn’t Belong in a Clean...
The Senate just released a federal budget resolution that includes a measure that could subsidize the production of natural gas. Here are 5 reasons why we shouldn't do that.
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