MASSACHUSETTS MADE headlines a few years ago when it secured the nation’s first large-scale procurement of offshore wind, the 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project. The Commonwealth was leading the way, planning on developing 3,200 megawatts in total, recognizing the potential of offshore wind to address its carbon reduction goals while catalyzing a new industry and growing […]
David W Cash
Posted inOpinion
The cost of abandoning norms
FOR OVER THREE YEARS we have watched as President Trump flouted norms of policy, civility, decency, and rule of law. Unlike any president before him, Republican or Democrat, he ignores norms of good governance, standard practices of reliance on science and evidence, separation of powers, respect for executive agencies, regard for competence in public service, […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Trump’s puzzling clean energy stance
Celebrate or despise his politics, it is hard not to acknowledge the brilliance of President Trump as a competitive opportunist. His business and political success is a long history of seizing opportunities by understanding what the public is hungry for, whether it is a realty show in the boardroom, get-rich-quick educational formats, or a return […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
State on verge of clean energy transformation
SOMETIMES INCREMENTAL CHANGES result in a patchwork of policies whose larger significance may be missed – and along with it major opportunities. That is the case with Massachusetts energy policy right now. The last several months have witnessed singular legislative, judicial, and executive branch actions that add up to an opportunity for a transformative acceleration […]