How do you revive an almost ghost town in remote Alaska? Ask the 20 residents of Red Devil who are betting on Donlin mine. Krysti Shallenberger, Alaska’s Energy Desk, October 2, 2019 Rebecca Wilmarth can see the empty school building across her lawn in Red Devil, Alaska. It shut down in 2009, and for a while, willows and alders shrouded … read more

How Big Oil Of The Past Helped Launch The Solar Industry Of Today Andrea Hsu, NPR, September 30, 2019 Call it a sign of the times. Renewable energy has gotten so cheap that even oil giant Exxon Mobil, which reported $20.8 billion in earnings in 2018, is getting in on the savings.  Over the next couple of years, Exxon Mobil … read more

How to Cut Emissions Without Wrecking the Economy Christopher Crane and Ted Halstead, Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2019 It’s one thing to build an odd-bedfellow coalition around broad principles, quite another to refine the details of an actionable plan. That we have now done. The Council’s Bipartisan Roadmap will be released in the coming months, but we can preview here three … read more