The Trump administration’s new beef with renewable energy

Should Renewable Energy Companies Sue Trump?

This week, since this edition of The Fight was so heavy, I tried something a little different: I interviewed one of my readers, Heiko Burow, an attorney with Baker & Mackenzie based in Dallas, Texas. Burow doesn’t work in energy specifically – he’s an intellectual property lawyer – but he’s read many of my scoops over the past few weeks about attacks on renewable energy and had legitimate criticism! Namely, as a lawyer who is passionate about th…

The Trump administration’s new beef with renewable energy

The Trump administration has a new beef with renewable energy: It takes up too much space. The Interior Department’s latest rules for evaluating whether to approve energy projects on federal land will focus on “energy density,” a metric that supposedly captures how much power a project can produce per acre of land it occupies. Secretary Doug Burgum, in describing his agency’s attitude toward renewables, has complained they are “gargantuan;” an a…