Mike Casey

For several years now, we've been making the case that the clean energy industry has to dramatically scale its advocacy investment to meet an aggressive disinformation campaign trained against it by the fossil lobby. We've found increasing receptiveness to that message, but we still run into people who think we've...

This is the first in a series of occasional posts I'm writing to grow an idea I'm calling "Deep Accountability."

Currently, fossil fuel industry lobbyists, flacks, allied pundits, and government officials are far too comfortable dismissing concerns about what their pollution does to other people. In their minds, it's a...

Back in October, my Tigercomm colleague Mark Sokolove and I took Scaling Green's Communicating Energy lecture series on the road to the Solar Power International 2011 (SPI) conference and trade show in Dallas, Texas.

We spoke with leaders in the solar energy field, and they had some interesting rebuttals to...

President Obama made a smart move this month by putting the Keystone XL pipeline project into the deep freeze. It had been poor politics for him -- and it would have been even worse policy for the country, especially when you consider the aggressive retooling of our world energy sources...

In mid-October, my Tigercomm colleague Mark Sokolove and I took Scaling Green's Communicating Energy lecture series on the road to the Solar Power International 2011 (SPI) conference and trade show in Dallas, Texas. With so many articulate, knowledgeable, clean energy thought leaders and company representatives in attendance,...

Cross posted from the Great Energy Challenge blog

What wasn't to dislike about the spectacle of this summer's recently concluded budget battle? There was the impending...

Cross-posted from The Great Energy Challenge.

The incredibly brave work of the U.S. Special Forces team that killed Osama bin Laden brought some badly needed uplifting news. It gave Americans welcome, if temporary, relief from steady news of American lives lost in the Middle East.

You can really feel...

Originally posted at The Great Energy Challenge blog

Anytime coal's cost to America is discussed, the coal industry reflexively talks about what an economic lifeline it is for the states in which it operates.

Headwaters Economics, a Bozeman-based think tank focusing on natural resource issues, has a solid...

We recently wrote about the insights shared by energy trends analyst Chris Namovicz of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), who spoke at our "Communicating Energy" lecture series recently, and his comments regarding the lack of a definitive count on fossil fuel subsidies in this country. Today, we...

The national conversation about wasteful welfare for highly profitable dirty energy corporations has gone from the dramatic statement by the Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency that fossil fuel subsidies are one of the biggest impediments to global economic recovery ("the appendicitis of the global energy system which...

Americans want to see the deficit cut, and thankfully, there is a new set of leaders in Congress who have committed themselves to cutting wasteful government spending.

70 percent of Americans are currently unaware how much of their money is given in welfare checks to highly profitable dirty...

The new Congress roared into Washington last week with what it sees as a mandate to cut government spending. Required reading for all its new members should be Washington Monthly's excellent new piece, "Get the Energy Sector off the Dole." And, if you work in, invest in, or...

Cancun - When I started working on solar energy issues several years ago, I heard it repeatedly: "Everyone...