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

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

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

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.

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.