America Can Hit A Clean Energy Grand Slam With Permitting Reform

December 6, 2024

Ray Long

It always amazes me how historic moments in sports can parallel the challenges we face in our daily lives. In Game 1 of Major League Baseball’s 2024 World Series, we were reminded that seizing the moment with our best efforts can lead to successes that change the future. Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers faced off against New York Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes Jr. with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning at Dodger Stadium, with the implications for the season on the line. Under the highest pressure, Freeman wasted no time putting everything he had into his best swing to send the first-pitch fastball from Cortes Jr. deep into the stands for a walk-off grand slam, earning the Dodgers a 6-3 comeback victory after being one out away from a devastating loss. (Side note: As a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, it gives me great pleasure to use this example here and to have witnessed LA’s dominance to win the Series).

The U.S. contributions to the transition to clean energy are facing a similar high-pressure moment. We have the talent and the resources (from recent federal investments), and now we need to step up and take our “best swing” to achieve our goals of delivering affordable, reliable and clean power to all Americans. Unfortunately, we’re staring down a very stingy pitcher: the federal permitting process for clean energy and transmission projects.

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Renewable Energy

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

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20 hours ago

March 22, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.

Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Renewable Energy

We’re Running Out of Time

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3 days ago

March 20, 2026

Alice Rush

There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:

• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)

• Environmental collapse.

• Malicious use of AI.

• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.

• Nuclear war.

Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.