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There was no legitimate reason to stop Revolution Wind, judge says, calling it "the height of arbitrary and capricious"

CA takes big step for ratepayers & planet, advancing legislation to pave way for Western RTO (part of suite of climate & energy policies to be celebrated as national government takes us backwards on these issues). Still, many hurdles & obstacles remain to establishing a well-functioning Western RTO:

Many thanks to @liari.bsky.social and @guineverecryptic.bsky.social (and Gennaro) for their very helpful feedback on this cryptic crossword, now up on MyCrossword. I'm learning a lot from them and others on this wonderful site!

So excited to have two selections in ELPAR! Summary of Utilities With Purpose (with my amazing coauthor @joeleisen.bsky.social) & abstract of Repurposing Fossil Infrastructure in this issue. Full length articles at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (UWP) & papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (RFI).

Beyond its precise and completely convincing validation of Lisa Cook's argument, this is an outstanding, well crafted legal brief.

"The darker agenda behind Trump’s obsession with wind turbines" | My #ScienceUnderSiege-themed op-ed for the @bostonglobe.com is now outside the paywall: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/o...

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

If you happen to be at one of these law schools in the South, be sure to check out one of my fabulous colleague @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social’s book events!

Federal appeals court shakes up transmission line siting. 3rd Circuit holds PA PUC's permit denial based on lack of need is preempted by PJM's regional planning process. Opinion is on PACER but not yet posted by 3rd Circuit on its site

This doesn't look good. Can anyone explain what could possibly have happened at the beginning of 2025 that caused things to go downhill?

Fantastic post about the illegality of Lisa Cook's firing. Highly recommended!

The Trump administration has halted work on an offshore wind farm that was almost completed, citing vague “national security” concerns with its construction #GreenSky

This is really an excellent post. Strongly recommended.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" will spike consumer bills, cost America jobs, and threaten power supply shortfalls. But smart states are moving quickly to accelerate deployment before tax credits go away. Psyched to work with @oboylemm.bsky.social on this NYT column. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

Year-on-year core PPI: “.. In the last 10 years, only April 2021 had a bigger jump.” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Fantastic news!

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...

True ignorance knows no boundaries.

Losing out on much-needed storage on the grid is the very definition of the US shooting itself in the foot.

Putting your head in the sand about climate change - with dangerous consequences - doesn’t make it any less so. Might as well try to repeal “water is wet.”

Waste, fraud and inefficiency don’t count when lobbyists’ interests are at stake, apparently.

Virtual power plants work, folks.

Teaching Admin Law in the fall. Can’t be “business as usual,” but really struggling to think about what would be most meaningful to students now.

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

FTC “click to cancel” rule struck down nationwide by 1 federal court. Why does this work after Trump v. CASA? Challenge to agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) - explicitly still allowed by the SCT.

Our New Paper that might be interesting to some folks around here: "The Optimal Timing of Storage Additions to Solar Power Plants" 🔌💡 Open access here: www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18...

The Trump administration is using worst-case scenario analysis to prop up badly outdated, highly polluting fossil fuel energy sources. And it is doing this after explicitly criticizing climate models for accounting for worst-case scenarios. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Not just denying climate change but actively working to exacerbate it. Up next will be "emergency" orders to keep coal plants open.

I wrote about China’s leadership in wind power FOURTEEN years ago. shorturl.at/LRVJo Today they have over 400 GW of installed capacity, three times as much as the US But hey - what are facts to today’s GOP?

Looks like the BBB is about pass. We reran the numbers on the final Senate version. The final language will drastically reduce electricity deployment, cut hundreds of thousands of jobs, and raise household energy costs hundreds of dollars per year. energyinnovation.org/report/updat...

Last night a bunch of Republicans in the House were saying how awful this bill was. Only took a couple hours, some merch, and a few words from Donald Trump, and they’re lining up to rip away health care from 17 MILLION people. I’m sadly not surprised — but I am still outraged.

Humphrey's Executor twists in the wind, again.

The big bill destroys reliance interests for renewable energy project plans. If I enroll at university A instead of B, & I find out when I get there that I can't pursue my 4-year degree because A is now going to close in a year, it hardly matters that A announces "we'll put it off for 1 more year."

The most powerful battery in Australia has begun testing its ability to act as a giant “shock absorber”, with the biggest intervention yet seen on the country’s grid.

This isn’t just a bill. It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare. Billions taken from one and given to the other.

OK, good news on the awful renewable energy tax, but if that's what it took to get Murkowski to vote yes and push this thing through . . . ugh

"The expected constraints on direct final rulemaking break down when an agency adopts a rule without [N&C] claiming that [it] is “unnecessary,” where the agency has received a serious, good-faith objection to the anticipated rule but happens to disagree with the objection" (Ron Levin, YJReg 2021)

TIL you can buy "Alligator Alcatraz" merch. I won't dignify it with pics. How far we have fallen.

Honored we are publishing this significant piece After CASA: The Administrative Procedure Act Option for Challenging Birthright Citizenship and Other Illegal Executive Actions By Harold Hongju Koh, Obama State Dept Legal Adviser Alan Charles Raul, HW Bush General Counsel of OMB & Agriculture Dept

When you lose even the Chamber of Commerce, you know your crushing new tax on the renewables industries (on top of eviscerating tax credits!) is a losing proposition.

New language on wind and solar tax credits drops eligibility for projects placed on service after 2027, regardless of when projects start construction. This rug pull will kill projects that we need to meet growing demand and jack up electricity prices.

Quick takes for #EnergyStorage in the Senate's bill: * ITC unchanged, available to 2030s * FEOC content test stricter, now prohibitive of projects w/ FEOC-linked cells from 2026 * FEOC remains onerous and likely unfinanceable Unless FEOC is fixed, is an effective phase out at end of 2025 #energysky

Nondelegation = huge win/Congress doesn't have to be ultra specific in commands to agencies (MQD/Loper Bright may still blunt impact of this) Nationwide injunctions R.I.P. = huge negative impact on challenges to any Administration action – certify class or win is just for plaintiffs in that court

Tremendous piece:

Article I, Section 5, Clause 4: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Great news!

You just have to laugh at Trump ordering DoE to “drill baby drill” and thinking it will do anything to moderate a near term price spike from the strikes in Ira.

The ONLY way to see this is hatred for all things EV.