Energy Archives - Public Seminar

A Staggering Reversal of Assumptions

Adam Tooze and Natasha Lennard discuss our current moment of bizarre juxtapositions in global politics

May 18, 2026 • by Natasha Lennard and Adam Tooze

Renowned historian Adam Tooze returned to The New School last month to reflect on this moment of dramatic geopolitical rupture. President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At the very same moment, China’s meteoric rise as the world’s ...

Plugged and Abandoned Wells? Not A Problem-It’s the Orphans that the Federal Government Should Worry About

What the Biden administration needs to know about “orphaned wells” before taking the American Jobs Plan to the House floor

April 29, 2021 • by Joseph Castillo

_____ On March 31, 2021, the Biden Administration released “The American Jobs Plan.” It’s an infrastructure proposal aimed at rebuilding the American economy, putting Americans back to work, while simultaneously addressing important environmental issues. One key problem the plan highlights, and that Biden discussed on the campaign trail, is the large ...