Ecosystems

How to plan the least risky places for solar development on public lands in the West

Utility scale solar PV projects need large continuous acres, in sunny places, ideally on public lands. But how do you decide where they go while minimizing conflicts?

The most contentious wind project in the country arrives—then falters—in Idaho

A short saga of Idaho's Lava Ridge wind project, a gigawatt scale project that stumbled, succeeded, then got killed. But it might still be resurrected in the future.

The Road to a Clean Energy Future

My telling of a 50-year environmental policy history and our many possible clean energy futures

Environmental Impacts of [Clean] Energy Projects

Our ecosystems are under broad threats from climate change, so how should we deal with the acute physical impacts of new energy projects on the landscape?