NEW article - Energy Data Justice - with my outstanding co-author @lawprofpayne.bsky.social - proposing a new framework for governance and access of energy data. Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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).

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).

"Intervenors have established significant risks that the Partners will engage in operational and financial engineering to increase returns."

New paper! A Blockchain for Coal Ash aims to describe a system where we are actually tracking coal ash - and transparently recording where it ends up. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New paper! A Blockchain for Coal Ash aims to describe a system where we are actually tracking coal ash - and transparently recording where it ends up. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"A new study from Stanford University found that children living in homes with frequent gas stove use and poor ventilation face nearly twice the lifetime cancer risk from benzene exposure compared to adults." www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

Ghostwriting the Government: This article by Bridget C.E. Dooling argues that when #government decision-makers rely on #ghostwriting, it can conflict with their duty to reason & make informed decisions. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

#Artificialintelligence is rapidly changing various professional sectors, including the #electric grid. This article by Heather Payne & Joel B. Eisen highlights beneficial applications of #AI in the grid context. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... #LawSky

Thank you, @womenknowlaw.bsky.social!

Professor @joeleisen.bsky.social and Ohio State's @lawprofpayne.bsky.social were honored at the 2025 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference in D.C. for their article "Utilities With Purpose," named one of 2024's top 5 environmental law articles. law.richmond.edu/features/art...

Excited to announce that “Artificial Intelligence and Energy Democracy,” by me & @lawprofpayne.bsky.social, is forthcoming in the San Diego Law Review. We discuss how AI can assist intervenors in PUC utility cases who currently encounter many barriers. Download at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The fossil fuel industry knows hooking up gas to new buildings gives our kids asthma and irreparably damages our climate. They’ve launched an international campaign to make sure we keep doing it anyway.

Yes! Me and @lawprofpayne.bsky.social wrote a whole article about the health harms of gas stoves and proposed a legal remedy in Warrantying Health Equity here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Power companies pressure Trump EPA to roll back rules on toxic coal ash energynews.us/2025/01/29/p...

This is a perilous moment for lawyers in federal service. Stories of resistance from within can help. This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII. We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience. Would you please share? tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2

I’ve been reporting for 2 years on a proposed federal rule to slow boats in order te save the critically endangered right whale. Republicans and boating lobbyists spent millions to block the rule by running ads, overwhelming NOAA and running down the clock. It worked 👇 apnews.com/article/whal...

We made a list and we hope you check it twice - and make sure to send it to everyone you know in NC thegriffinlist.com

Eric Biber, The Importance of Reliability in an Age of Electrification (December 5, 2024) (reviewing Heather Payne, Reliance and Reliability, UC Irvine L. Rev. (forthcoming); Joshua Macey et al., Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, 41 Yale J. on Reg. 163 (2024)), lex.jotwell.com/the-importan....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) endorse water fluoridation. The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.

On Monday, I filed a comment at FERC on behalf of 5 energy law professors about FERC's approach to providing consumers relief when it finds that a utility made imprudent decisions -- elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

The health costs to restaurant workers of gas stoves are fantastically bad. Methane, CO2, CO, NOx, VOC pollution at dangerous levels even when vented, with constantly dangerous heat exposure equivalent to being outside in the worst heat waves. #agu24

I’m obviously frustrated with the constant allegation that the huge (and only one they can come up with) benefit of the US healthcare system is “not having to wait for services.” Are there any of you that have a story about having to wait to your health detriment for US healthcare? Please share.

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Excited that a forthcoming article, Reliance and Reliability, has been reviewed by Berkeley Law’s Eric Biber in Jotwell: jotwell.com

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Excited that Warrantying Health Equity is finally published! The amazing @jennoliva.bsky.social and I argue that the implied warranty of habitability - which adheres to every residential contract and cannot be waived - should be expanded to allow tenants to require the removal of all gas appliances.

Let's try that again with a proper image. It really is difficult to describe the oilsands mines in northernAlberta. The scale defies description and warps your senses when you look down from the air. These incredible photos from Amber Bracken help tell the tale. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...

Thrilled to be publishing "Utilities With Purpose" in the FL L Rev with the amazing @joeleisen.bsky.social. We argue utilities' ESG commitments are insufficient to address climate change & that state PUCs should require utilities to change their corporate charters to become "purpose-driven."