Environment

While our electric grid hums along, unnoticed 99 percent of the time, it is among the most antiquated physical infrastructure systems in America. This reality…

December began with three major news items from the climate and energy world, and none of them included the name Solyndra. While the failed solar…

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is the small agency within the Department of Energy that compiles and analyzes data on domestic energy production and consumption.…

Duke University researchers created a stir in the energy and environmental world last spring when their study on methane contamination of ground water near hydraulically…

Electric companies are like umpires – we never notice them unless they mess up. Barring an extended power outage or extreme rate hike, we simply…

With final adjustments completed this week by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s cap and trade emissions plan will go into effect on…

The proposed merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy would create the nation’s largest utility provider, boasting a total of 7 million customers.  The new company,…

Many energy policy students, like myself, show up to graduate school with noble ambitions and high hopes of making our energy system “cleaner.” Renewable energy…