David Roberts
A bit of good green energy news for your holidays, courtesy of New England
In Northeastern power markets, renewable energy is increasingly cheaper than fossil fuel energy.
Could flooding finally wake Americans up to the climate crisis?
Several big U.S. cities could be seeing 30 days of flooding a year by 2020, a new study says.
Is China’s demand for coal going to keep rising? Don’t bet on it
A report from the International Energy Agency suggests that demand will grow steadily for years. There are lots of good reasons to believe that's wrong.
3 more reasons Seattle is stuck in a fustercluck
Seattle's ongoing transportation fiasco could not be contained in a single post.
Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck
Seattle is involved in a slow-motion catastrophe, as construction of a new car-centric tunnel grinds to a halt and cost overruns loom.
Wind and solar are much less financially risky than other power projects
What kind of electricity projects most often go over budget? Two recent studies dig into the question and find some surprising answers.
Updates on things I’m obsessed with
The latest on: the Supreme Court and an exciting FERC order; Peabody Energy and a misguided constitutional scholar; and coal export terminals and why we don’t need more.
Coal giant exploits the global poor to save its own hide
Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, is trying to pitch itself as a friend of poor people. Oh, the ironies abound.
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