How US renewable-energy growth persists despite federal policy uncertainty
Despite recent shifts in federal energy policies, a Carbon Brief analysis shows that the US transition to renewable energy is continuing.
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What Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations can teach us about today’s failed energy transitions
Despite three decades of COP climate talks and a boom in renewables, global emissions continue to rise, rooted in capitalism’s relentless drive to expand energy use. Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations helps explain why renewable energy has grown without pushing fossil fuels out.
Small modular nuclear reactors are a dead end
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are being promoted as cheaper, safer, and faster to build than older nuclear plants, winning support from some environmentalists and a more pro‑nuclear public. Amid an energy crisis and soaring AI‑driven electricity demand, SMRs seem promising, but many critics, rightly, still see them as a dangerous dead end.
We have entered the age of consequences for climate and energy inaction: An interview with Richard Heinberg
In the final part of this three-part interview series, Richard Heinberg reflects on decades of ignored warnings about energy descent and economic collapse, calling for a voluntary relocalization of economics and politics.
The oil security paradox: Every war becomes an oil crisis in a fossil-fuel economy
The war in Iran has made the paradox inescapable. The pursuit of energy security through fossil fuels produced the very disruption it was meant to prevent. Instead, the transition to renewables offers the genuine insulation that oil never can: from global price shocks, from the geopolitical risks embedded in that dependence, and from the carbon emissions driving the climate crisis.
Managing energy descent means using less, not just building more: An interview with Richard Heinberg
In this interview with 15/15\15 magazine, Richard Heinberg argues that current transition strategies ignore a central reality: replacing fossil fuels is not enough without reducing overall energy use.
What an overlooked oil protocol reveals about managing resource decline: An interview with Richard Heinberg
Twenty years after a global proposal to limit oil extraction, Richard Heinberg revisits its relevance in this interview and argues that equitable rationing may be key to reducing conflict and managing resource decline.
Chokepoint: The New Urgency of Ending Our Fossil Fuel Addiction
Join us for the free, online event “Chokepoint: The New Urgency of Ending Fossil Fuel Addiction” on May 6, 2026 with panelists Nate Hagens and Kumi Naidoo, and guest moderator, Gaya Herrington.
Nuclear safety at risk: what’s changing under Donald Trump
As sweeping deregulation accelerates under Donald Trump, long-standing nuclear safety regulations are being rolled back with little public scrutiny, raising new concerns about risks to both human health and the environment.
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but protecting wildlife can be good for business
Would you rather have abundant and affordable energy or a clean, healthy planet where wildlife can flourish? It sounds like an either/or choice, but it doesn’t have to be.
Oil price manipulation, an unrecognized stratagem and an unhinged plan
Oil price manipulation is taking many forms after the closure of one of the world’s major choke points for oil transport sent oil prices higher.
Is the Hormuz Chokehold a Foretaste of Peak Oil?
Hence, the severe restrictions in the flow of oil though the Strait of Hormuz, resulting from the recent US-Iranian attacks, may be seen as a stark rehearsal for the consequences of a severe shock in the global oil supply, as might be experienced from a “peak oil” crisis, with volatile price spikes and supply chain disruptions.
