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Reading about failed turbine blades & "alkalinity enhancement"? Well we've dealt ourselves a lousy climate hand and don't have the...

Two Boston Globe stories I read this weekend on the rapidly shrinking island of Nantucket this weekend are worthy of your attention.    The first story is about EPA's consideration of a plan to intentionally dump 6600...more

So not only are NIMBYs delaying our essential transition to renewable energy, they're also taking lots of money out of our...

The Boston Globe reports that the cost of the critically important New England Clean Energy Connect project increased by over 50 percent to 1.5 billion dollars during the three years Avangrid, the project developer, battled...more

The Bay State's ability to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals is now in the hands of a Maine jury. Does that make any sense...

Seems like just yesterday that the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled on New England Clean Energy Connect's challenge to the retroactive initiative petition that might have killed the project to get hydropower from Canada to...more

For different reasons, Members of Congress in both parties have put off the permitting reform essential to reach our renewable...

As millions in Florida face the wrath of our warming oceans in the guise of Hurricane Ian, Inside EPA is reporting that enough Democrats and Republicans opposed Senator Manchin's proposal to streamline the permitting of...more

The UK is taking the nuclear road not taken here. What's our plan?

News this week that massive ecologically sensitive intake heads are being installed for a new nuclear plant being constructed in Somerset, England. The 21st century plant also includes new "core catcher" technology to...more

Another Day, Another Weaponization of the Courts to Try to Prevent Renewable Energy

Another lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court in an attempt to sink the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Nantucket. At first glance, this lawsuit was brought by a coalition of line fishermen and related businesses...more

Endless Litigation is a HUGE Part of the Reason our Energy and Transportation Infrastructure isn't What it Should be

This morning's editorial in The Boston Globe, "Offshore wind could die in the regulatory doldrums", is something one might have also read in The Wall Street Journal. If that doesn't catch your attention, please know it is a...more

Solar Farm Developers and Fishermen

The Arthashastra, a 2400 year old Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, tells us that the enemy of my enemy might be my friend. And that ancient proverb brings us to the lawsuit filed yesterday by a Connecticut-based solar farm...more

Gas Lines to Pipelines: The Case for Comprehensive Federal Energy Legislation

We’ve struggled with the consequences of an insufficient federal energy policy for nearly half a century. From the gas lines of the 1970s to the Keystone XL pipeline controversy of the past several years, the federal and...more

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