What we’re reading

CRI takes inspiration from the incredible work that’s coming to the surface across our network every day. This page shares writing and projects that have particularly caught our attention. Have something for us to consider posting? Reach out!

• 04.22.26

  On the Bleakest Earth Day, Trust the Undercurrent of Resistance

  Alejandro Camacho

  The first Earth Day succeeded because a decade of preparatory work. “Lessons for a Warming Planet” teaches us what we must do now.

• 04.09.26

  Rising Energy Bills Are a State Capacity Problem

  Jamie Van Nostrand, Mike Bloomberg

  We’ve spent the last decade debating what utilities should build.

• 04.06.26

  The NEPA Everyone Is Arguing About Doesn’t Exist Anymore

  Marc Levitt

  NEPA’s old framework has been taken apart, leaving permitting reform as the only path to restore community protections.

• 03.18.26

  How to Build an Affordable Energy Future

  Manish Bapna

  To unleash America’s energy potential, we need reforms that are different, and go far deeper, than the permitting proposals Congress is considering right now.

• 03.12.26

  Policy-driven growth of technologies to accelerate climate action

  Jessica Jewell, Aleh Cherp, Frank W. Geels, Masahiro Suzuki, Lola Nacke, Jale Tosun, Senjuty Bhowmik, Tsimafei Kazlou, Avi Jakhmola & Vadim Vinichenko

  The growth of policy-driven low-carbon technologies moves through four phases (formative, accelerating, steady, and slowdown), and effective acceleration requires phase-specific policies rather than one-size-fits-all support.