The end of the climate hawk era

The end of the climate hawk era

As Philip Rossetti recently noted, policymakers at every level of government have been drawn to the subject of energy regulation. The permitting reform debates are fierce and high-stakes: Energy costs are rising in America, and recent fights over renewable energy subsidies, electric vehicles, and transmission policy have polarized energy politics in recent years. Constructive policy outcomes are far from assured.

Today’s energy policy disputes are contentious, but they are miles from the deployment vs. innovation wars that divided clean energy advocates last decade, which The Dispatch examines here.

On one side of those debates were those who insisted on deploying off-the-shelf clean energy solutions, like solar panels and wind turbines, arguing that