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Commentary: S.C. senators can pass an overdue fix for unaffordable electric bills
This opinion piece was first published in Energy News Network on June 16, 2023. A little-known regulatory policy temporarily put in place following the oil crisis of the 1970s is still prevalent and causing high electric bills, hiking Dominion customers’ bills yet again this past month... -
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TVA Planning Process Less “Public” than Private Utilities
For electric utilities, even more than in most other industries, long-term planning is crucial. Two characteristics of the industry make this the case: it takes months to years to get a new generation, demand-side, or transmission project or program running, and historically it has been... -
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EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Carbon Pollution Limits Are Critical
Electric power plants produce toxic pollution when they burn fossil fuels, like coal, oil, and gas. The carbon pollution from power plants fuels the climate crisis, making summers hotter, storms bigger, and floods deeper. Fossil fuel pollution from power plants also harms our health, increasing... -
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Congressional Leaders Urge TVA to Transition to Clean Renewable Energy
On August 17, ten members of Congress, including Representative Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Senator Edward Markey (MA), sent a letter to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) urging the federal utility to chart a path to 100% clean electricity by 2035. The letter begins, “As the country’s largest... -
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SACE Files Testimony Against Georgia Power’s Latest Fossil Fuel Frenzy
Carbon Pollution From Electric Utilities is Soaring The utilities that supply our electricity are responsible for almost one third of the carbon pollution that’s overheating our planet. Decades of dependence on fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas – has pumped carbon pollution into the atmosphere... -
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South Carolina Legislature Unlearns Lessons, Promotes Major Fossil Gas Industry Push
This blog was written by SACE Decarbonization Director Eddy Moore. South Carolina Legislature Proposes to Roll Back Rate-Payer Protections Five years ago, after utility companies spent $9 billion on a nuclear plant that was never finished, the South Carolina legislature reformed the law to... -
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Call “Natural” Gas what it is: a Fossil Fuel
The Term “Natural Gas” is a Misnomer “Natural gas is a fossil fuel energy source.” This is the first line of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s page defining “natural” gas. The fuel is mostly made up of methane, and, similar to coal and oil, it was formed when plant and animal remains... -
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EPA to TVA: Review is Inadequate, More Transparency Needed
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says TVA’s environmental review of its replacement of the Kingston coal plant has “serious deficiencies,” and thus “does not satisfy the requirements of NEPA and its implementing regulations.” Due to these shortcomings, EPA requests that TVA issue... -
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SC House Passes Legislation Favoring Fossil Fuel Expansion Over Renewable Electricity
Credit:rui_noronha On Thursday, March 28, 2024, the South Carolina House of Representatives approved H.5118, the “South Carolina Energy Security Act.” This highly costly and risky piece of legislation would expand fossil-fueled electric power generation and slow the development of renewable... -
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NEDA Week 2018: Break Your Rules
Not too long ago I chatted with a client who told me, “I’m realizing more and more that I need to break my rules, because I made them all up.” She delivered the words straightforwardly, and I didn’t have the feeling that she expected a big reaction from me. Still, I nearly fell out of my chair... -
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NEDA Week 2018: Be Love
“Be love” is one of those expressions that you might have come across in any number of places, from yoga studios to self-help and wellness titles. It’s one of most important of my five ED recovery affirmations, but I feel a little funny writing about it, because I don’t have much to say that... -
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NEDA Week 2018: Keep Faith
I just want to start this post by thanking every person who’s been part of the NEDA week dialog over the last five days, both here on the blog and over social media. I feel so blessed to be celebrating recovery in your company. “Keep faith” is the final of my five eating disorder recovery... -
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I wanted so much to sit down and write something very thoughtful and reflective today, as I have in past years on my birthday. The last twelve months have certainly given me plenty to say; they’ve been full of interesting insights and realizations, lots of renewed human connection, and important... -
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NEDA Week 2019: Come as You Are
Happy Monday, friends! As you probably noticed, I took a pause from weekend reading this week in order to reflect on National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Each year, I use this week as an opportunity to reflect on my own recovery and to celebrate recovery with all of you. This year’s NEDA... -
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NEDA Week 2019: Having My Own Thing
There’s always an official NEDA week theme, but most of the time the posts I write for this week end up finding a theme of their own. The National Eating Disorder Association’s theme for 2019 is “Come as You Are,” which emphasizes diversity and inclusivity in our community of those living with... -
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NEDA Week 2019: Sharing Food While Tuning In
As this week approached, I asked folks on Instagram what recovery topics they’d like to hear about. One of the questions I got was how to eat around others. The question didn’t specify a stage of recovery, but I think it’s an important conversation for any stage! At the start of recovery... -
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I’ve been writing birthday posts since I turned thirty. The last few haven’t been easy, but this year I’ve been feeling particularly conscious of time and melancholy about the arrival of June 7th. Not to mention grumpy and fatigued—not my best mood for writing. Then I got an email, from a blog... -
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NEDA Week 2020: Start as You Are
Last year’s NEDA week theme was “come as you are.” It was an important and overdue celebration of diversity and representation within the recovery community and the treatment field. It also got me thinking about the unique perspectives that we bring to our recoveries, the fact that no two... -
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I’m glad that the resources I shared last week were helpful to some of you. I’ll keep sharing as I do my own work—today, that means recommending Ava Duvernay’s 13th. If you’ve had questions about mass incarceration and its place among other systems of oppression, the documentary will probably...