Norquist Stance on Renewable Electricity Standards Gets Zapped

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Where to start with right-wing maven Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, especially when he weighs in on the environment and renewable energy in his typically uninformed, anti-intellectual, anti-science, ideological and agenda-ridden style?

Well let’s start with the fact that Norquist and Patrick Gleason, director state affairs for Norquist’s organization, have published an op-ed article in Politico, “Rethink Energy Mandates,” which calls on states to scrap renewable electricity standards (RES).

That’s where the facts end.

RES are a successful, bipartisan policy that requires utilities to gradually increase their use of wind, solar, and other renewable power sources over time. The standards have been a primary driver for deploying clean power sources for the last fifteen years, says Jeff Deyette, assistant director of research analysis, Clean Energy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Deyette took on the admirable task of discrediting the Norquist article. His response blows it out of the water.

It is no wonder, Deyette writes, that “champions for the coal industry and a 20th century power system have launched an all-out assault on the popular and successful [RES] policy.”

He continues that the most ridiculous claim in the

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