Sublime

This turn toward conservation and energy efficiency was the first crisis, of three, that would shock the electric utilities during the Carter era. Their business model, long premised on endlessly increasing consumption linked to endlessly increasing production of ever cheaper electric power tied, in turn, to the construction of ever bigger, more te

Even though few realized the implications at the time, section 210 of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA for short) effectively broke the utility’s total control over everything that entered, moved through, and exited their power system.

Love Canal in 1978 in tiny Niagara Falls changed pollution from an abstract evil to an immediate horror show.