Will Clean Energy Research and Development Be Sequestered?
In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked about the role research and development (R&D) has played to advance our society and enhance our quality of life. I think that most people...
View ArticleLos Alamos Firing Demonstrates Exactly What’s Wrong with Scientific Integrity...
Yesterday, my colleague Lisbeth Gronlund wrote about the unjust firing of James Doyle, a 17-year employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The PhD political scientist was fired over an academic...
View Article3 Ways Trump’s Department of Energy Appointee Can Create Jobs
More than 2.5 million Americans are now employed in clean energy or energy efficiency jobs, and the vast majority of new energy jobs being created are coming from the clean energy sector. If the new...
View ArticleThe Department of Energy Just Created a Powerful Tool to Protect its Scientists
It’s harder to create good science, and to follow the evidence where it leads, when your work can be easily corrupted by political meddling. The Department of Energy has significantly expanded...
View ArticleWhat Will US Energy Leadership Look Like at Rick Perry’s Department of Energy?
There’s a clear trend in the president-elect’s cabinet appointments—many of them are opposed to the agencies they would lead. Some have demonstrated opposition to the particular agency and/or its...
View ArticleWill a Rick Perry DOE Help Limit a Risky Overreliance on Natural Gas?
Within the next couple of weeks, former Texas Governor Rick Perry will appear before Congress for hearings on his nomination for Secretary of Energy under the Trump administration. Mr. Perry clearly...
View ArticleRick Perry and the “Texas Approach” to Renewable Energy and Infrastructure
Rick Perry—Trump’s pick for the Department of Energy—saw how infrastructure can impact energy development when he was governor of Texas. Texas has a history of success producing energy. Two keys to...
View Article8 Simple Words Energy Secretary Rick Perry Can Say Right Now to Reaffirm that...
Late Tuesday afternoon, Politico reported that some managers at the Department of Energy (DOE) orally instructed employees in the department’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy not to...
View ArticleSome Tough Questions for Rick Perry at DOE Budget Hearing
UPDATE (June 19, 3:00 PM): Secretary Perry appeared this morning on CNBC’s Squawkbox and questioned whether CO2 was the main factor driving climate change. He instead said that it’s most likely “the...
View ArticleGiving Thanks to Climate Researchers of the Federal Agencies
Most of my science career I worked for the Department of Energy as a climate modeler and numerical expert at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Since my retirement in 2010 I have written a text on...
View ArticlePresident Dumps Clean Energy in Proposed Budget
Photo: US Department of EnergyToday, the president released his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year (FY 2019) and as expected, it seeks to eviscerate research and development (R&D) in...
View Article6 Things to Know about the 2020 Cyberattack and Nuclear Power Plants
Crystal River 3 nuclear power plant/CC BY-SA 2.0News reports over the last day indicate that a massive and devastating cyberattack on US government agencies and private companies in the United States...
View ArticleWill Clean Energy Research and Development Be Sequestered?
In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked about the role research and development (R&D) has played to advance our society and enhance our quality of life. I think that most people...
View ArticleLos Alamos Firing Demonstrates Exactly What’s Wrong with Scientific Integrity...
Yesterday, my colleague Lisbeth Gronlund wrote about the unjust firing of James Doyle, a 17-year employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The PhD political scientist was fired over an academic...
View ArticleKeep on the Sunny Side
The Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently released an important update to their assessment on biomass availability. The “Billion Ton Update” catalogs the current and future...
View ArticleNo Rush to Build a U.S. Military Enrichment Plant
A new Energy Department report finds new capacity to enrich uranium for military purposes won’t be needed for decades. Earlier this month, the Department of Energy (DOE) submitted its long overdue...
View ArticleCold War Nuclear Weapons Put St. Louis Community At Risk—in 2023
Current-day residents near St. Louis, Missouri, are living with chronic health conditions and an increased cancer burden due to contamination from uranium mining and processes used in the production...
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