Will Lake Charles, Louisiana, become America’s latest climate sacrifice?
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-Nelson is a freelance journalist reporting on health, the environment, international development, and inequality. Check out her work at www.marakardasnelson.com.
When Going Green Collides With the Free Market
Texas’s chaotic, deregulated energy market was key to Georgetown’s claim to be the nation’s renewable-energy leader. It’s also the reason their project backfired.

