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The Battle Over Sustainable Energy
Unlike a lot of activists, I’m not what you’d call a single-issue voter. Education, health care, immigration, land use, transportation—I’m passionate about all of them. But if there’s one overarching...
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Investor Owned Utilities Bad for Your Health
In my last column I noted that prominent Southern California physicians and solar energy companies have teamed up to fight Assemblyman Steve Bradford and powerful utility interests seeking to kill net...
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The SONGS Remains the Same
Last Friday, Edison International—one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the country—announced that it would permanently retire the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The...
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Key Voting Bloc Trending Toward Solar
Anyone who’s been following my posts of late will know that I have energy on the brain, but with good reason. There’s been a lot of activity in the political sphere around climate change. Last week,...
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Rent-Seekers of California
Now that I’ve had a chance to catch up with my Google Alerts from the past few weeks, I came across a blog from the Wall Street Journal that piqued my interest. And for once, in a good way. The writer,...
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Santa Clara Valley Water District Divests from Fossil Fuels
The Santa Clara Valley Water District became the first water agency in the nation to join a movement to divest from fossil fuels, retracting investments from companies considered to contribute to...
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Rentseekers and The Free Market: Part II
I watched a piece on CNN the other day that really tied the room together, in terms of the battle over America’s energy future. Recently in this space, I’ve ranted about “rentseekers”—established...
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New Legislation to Reach Energy Goals Omits Rooftop Solar
Each house of the California legislature recently produced a bill that calls for our state to get 50 percent of its energy from renewable resources by the end of 2030. It’s a goal that many of us on...
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