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Whitepapers
The Cost of Heat: Managing Pennsylvania’s Thermal Transition
An investigation of rising gas infrastructure costs and a roadmap for an affordable thermal transition in Pennsylvania.
Co-author · 2026
The End of Gas System Subsidies
An analysis of gas line extension allowances, their costs to utility customers, and the policy choices for ending them.
Co-author · 2025
Decarbonizing the Obligation to Serve
A nationwide examination of utility service obligations and the legal reforms needed to enable neighborhood-scale decarbonization.
Author · 2024
The Future of Gas in Illinois
An analysis of the financial risks of continued gas infrastructure investment in Illinois and the opportunities for a managed, neighborhood-scale transition to clean heat.
Project manager and developmental editor · 2024
Neighborhood-Scale: The Future of Building Decarbonization
A framework for coordinating clean energy investments across whole neighborhoods to manage the transition off the gas system.
Co-author · 2023
Leveraging the IRA: Transforming the Market for Equitable Building Decarbonization
Offers 14 recommendations to make federal climate investments advance equitable building decarbonization, housing, and health.
Project manager · 2023
Reports
Momentum: Q1 2026
Quarterly analysis of clean heating markets, neighborhood-scale projects, gas system costs, and the thermal transition.
Co-author · 2026
Momentum: Q2 2026
An examination of heat pump growth, energy affordability, the thermal workforce, and state gas transition policies.
Co-author · 2026
Momentum: Q3 2026
A special legislation edition examining five years of building decarbonization policy and the affordability concerns shaping the 2026 session.
Contributing author · 2026
Momentum: Q1 2025
A national view of the state policies, consumer demand, and infrastructure decisions advancing building decarbonization.
Co-author · 2025
Momentum: Q2 2025
An analysis of building decarbonization markets and state action amid federal policy reversals and supply chain uncertainty.
Co-author · 2025
Momentum: Q3 2025
A quarterly assessment of heat pump adoption, neighborhood-scale projects, and policies shaping the future of gas and clean heat.
Co-author · 2025
2022 Legislative Roundup
A review of state building decarbonization legislation and the opportunities created by new federal climate investments.
Author · 2022
2023 Legislative Roundup
A curated tracker and analysis of state policies addressing gas system expansion, building emissions, and healthier schools.
Author · 2023
2024 Legislative Roundup
An interactive overview of state building decarbonization legislation and policy trends across the United States.
Co-author · 2024
2025 Legislative Roundup
A review of building decarbonization legislation in 2025, placing the year’s developments within trends tracked since 2022.
Co-author · 2025
Blogs
2025 Wrapped: Building Decarb Edition
A year-end synthesis of the policies, market shifts, and community efforts shaping building decarbonization in 2025.
Co-author · 2025
2024 Wrapped: Building Decarb Edition
A look back at the clean heating technologies, policies, and projects that advanced building decarbonization in 2024.
Co-author · 2024
2023 Wrapped: Building Decarb Edition
An assessment of the milestones and challenges that defined the building decarbonization movement in 2023.
Co-author · 2023
DecarbNation, Issue 2: The Future of Gas
An examination of gas planning proceedings and the regulatory decisions shaping infrastructure, rates, workers, and communities.
Author · 2022
DecarbNation, Issue 4: Neighborhood-Scale Decarbonization
An exploration of coordinated neighborhood electrification as a strategy for accelerating an equitable transition to clean heat.
Author · 2023
Books
The Clean Green Neighborhood
A bilingual children’s book about sharing energy, building community power, and the union workers who make clean energy neighborhoods possible.
Author · 2025
Illustrated by Nicole Kelner; translated by Jose Torres.
Fossils in the Making
A poetry collection exploring embodiment, language, and the forms of life taking shape within ecological crisis.
Author · Black Ocean · 2019
Diurne
A poetry collection written through daily and hourly constraints that explores the rhythms of consciousness, labor, and making.
Author · Tupelo Press · 2019
Winner of the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize.
Academic Articles
Atomic Afrofuturism and Amiri Baraka’s Compulsive Futures
A reading of Amiri Baraka’s anti-nuclear musical that connects Black futurity, nuclear criticism, and the uneven experience of apocalypse.
Author · Oxford Literary Review 41.1 · 2019
Addressing the Atomic Specter: Ginsberg’s “Plutonian Ode” and America’s Nuclear Unconscious
An examination of Allen Ginsberg’s “Plutonian Ode” and the relationship between poetry and America’s nuclear unconscious.
Author · Symplokē 27.1–2 · 2019
Energy Ecopoetics
A study of postwar American poetry as a way to understand energy’s social and ecological forms.
Co-author with Margaret Ronda · 2023
In The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics.
Selected Media Coverage
Interviews and reporting featuring my research on energy affordability, gas utility infrastructure, and the transition to cleaner heat.
Interviews & Commentary
The real reason your monthly gas bill keeps going up
Interviewed about rising gas bills, pipeline spending, and long-term utility costs.
Gas pipeline replacement driving up customer bills
Interviewed about Pennsylvania gas infrastructure spending and its costs to customers.
Electrification advocates, AGA at odds over heat pumps’ role in affordability
Quoted on energy affordability, state legislation, and integrated energy planning.
The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
Quoted on heat pump adoption, new construction, and household energy bills.
Massachusetts residents no longer have to subsidize new gas hookups
Quoted on gas line-extension subsidies and the movement to reform them.
Research in the News
Group targets Pa. law on gas utility line spending as it pushes thermal energy
In-depth reporting on The Cost of Heat and recommendations for Pennsylvania gas utility reform.
Heat pumps have so far withstood the death of federal tax credits
Features Momentum research on heat pump shipments after federal tax incentives expired.
Electric heating gains momentum in new homes
Features Momentum research on new construction, heating markets, and energy policy.
Talks & Conversations
Volts: How to Phase Out Residential Gas Equitably
A conversation with David Roberts and Panama Bartholomy about gas infrastructure costs, utility obligations, and an equitable transition to clean heat.
Guest · Volts · 2026
Energy Nerd Show: Overcoming a Key Obstacle to Building Decarbonization
A discussion of utilities’ obligation to serve gas and the reforms needed to enable building decarbonization.
Guest · Energy Nerd Show
The Real Cost of Gas Pipeline Replacements
A discussion of accelerated pipeline replacement programs, their costs and safety outcomes, and reforms to protect utility customers.
Panelist · BDC Presents · October 8, 2026
State of the Union: Post-Election Decarb Outlook
A post-election discussion of the building decarbonization movement’s progress and prospects for the next four years.
Panelist · BDC Presents · December 12, 2024
The Future of Gas
A national conversation on the regulatory proceedings, economic research, and equity considerations shaping the transition from methane gas.
Panelist · BDC Presents · September 26, 2024
Editorial
Colorado Review
As poetry book review editor, I commission and edit reviews of contemporary poetry.