“I’m not going to sugarcoat how hard transitions are,” new United States Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated on Wednesday. Her comment, made during IHS Markit’s annual CERAWeek conference, was in reference to the clean energy transition that serves as one of the cornerstones of President Biden’s platform, but she could just as easily be talking, in grander terms, about the administrative changeover that she is part of. The new presidential administration has hit the ground running on climate change, with a demonstrative focus on bringing the United States up to speed with the rest of the developed world in terms of leaning into the global green energy transition. While this proactive approach has been lauded as essential and far overdue in some circles, it also has its fair share of critics. Biden’s relatively tough stance on the United States’ massive shale oil and gas industry has stirred up a […]