writing

In addition to writing for an academic audience, I also devote time to writing for popular and policy audiences, particularly on climate change and energy policy. Here are some links to my recent work. You can also find me on Twitter and Instagram.


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Leah C. Stokes and Jonathan Klein. “How California schools can quit burning fossil fuels.” The Los Angeles Times, September 2023.

Leah C. Stokes. “I Turned My House Into a Zero-Carbon Utopia.” The Atlantic, August 2023.

Leah C. Stokes. “The terrible climate hypocrisy at the top of Southern California Edison.” The Los Angeles Times, August 2023.

Leah C. Stokes. “Before We Invest Billions in This Clean Fuel, Let’s Make Sure It’s Actually Clean.” The New York Times, April 2023.

Charles Harper, Sam Krasnow, Leah Stokes, Lissa Lynch, Sam Ricketts, Amanda Levin, Daniela Schulman, Jeff Slyfield, & Christy Walsh. Powering Toward 100 Percent Clean Power by 2035.” Evergreen Action & NRDC, January 2023.

Leah C. Stokes. “This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition.The New York Times, December 2022.

Nate Kinsey, Molly Freed, Trevor Dolan, Leah C. Stokes, Dani Schulman & Sam Ricketts. “A National Roadmap for Clean Buildings: How President Biden Can Use Executive Action to Drive Toward 100% Zero-Emission Buildings.Evergreen Action, October 2022.

Cara Bottorff, Noah Ver Beek, & Leah C. Stokes. “The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, Version 2.Sierra Club, October 2022.

Leah C. Stokes. “Defiant Energy: How the American electric utility industry pushed climate denial, doubt, and delay.Orion Magazine, September 2022.

Clean and Healthy Schools are Electric: Aligning California’s School Infrastructure Investments with our Climate and Health Goals.” Rewiring America, UndauntedK12, the UC Santa Barbara 2035 Initiative, August 2022.

Leah C. Stokes. “What Joe Manchin Cost Us.The New York Times, July 2022.

Leah C. Stokes. “Could the U.S. soon be on track to cut carbon emissions in half?The Washington Post, June 2022.

Leah C. Stokes. “Build Back Better is about opportunity, not sacrifice.The Boston Globe, February 2022.

Leah C. Stokes, Sam Ricketts, & Olivia Quinn. “A Roadmap to 100% Clean Electricity by 2035: August 2021 Update.” Policy Report. Evergreen Action, August 2021.

Leah C. Stokes. “The Infrastructure Bill Won’t Cut It on Climate." The Atlantic, July 2021.

Leah C. Stokes, Sam Ricketts, Olivia Quinn, Bracken Hendricks & Narayan Subramanian. “A Roadmap to 100% Clean Electricity by 2035.” Policy Report. Evergreen Action & Data for Progress, February 2021.

Leah C. Stokes & Sam Ricketts. “The case for a national clean electricity standard.” Vox, February 2021.

Leah C. Stokes. “Bill Gates and the problem with climate solutionism.” The MIT Technology Review, February 2021.

John Romankiewicz, Cara Bottorff, & Leah C. Stokes. “The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges.” Policy Report. Sierra Club, January 2021.

Leah C. Stokes. “It’s Time for Santa Barbara to Ditch Fossil Gas.” The Santa Barbara Independent, December 31 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “Sowing Seeds of Climate Action in the Garden.” The Boston Globe, December 28 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “Hearing Greta’s Message. EARTHER, November 20 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “Biden has a climate mandate. The Boston Globe, November 8 2020.

Matto Mildenberger & Leah C. Stokes. “The Trouble with Carbon Pricing.” Boston Review, September 24 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “How Can We Plan for the Future in California.” The Atlantic, August 23 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “An FBI Investigation Shows Ohio’s Abysmal Energy Law was Fueled by Corruption.” Vox, July 22 2020.

Nikayla Jefferson & Leah C. Stokes. “Our Racist Fossil Fuel Energy System.” The Boston Globe, July 17 2020.

Nikayla Jefferson & Leah C. Stokes. “Racial Justice is Climate Justice - and It Can’t Wait.” Drilled News, June 19 2020.

Parrish Bergquist, Matto Mildenberger & Leah C. Stokes. “Protestors want justice - including on social, economic and climate demands.” The Washington Post, June 12 2020.

Leah C. Stokes & Matto Mildenberger “Green stimulus, not dirty bailouts, is the smart investment strategy during the coronavirus recession.” Washington Center for Equitable Growth, May 18 2020.

Leah C. Stokes .“Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil.” Vox, April 28 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “Upend the political power of carbon polluters.” The Boston Globe, April 19 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “Cleaning up the Electricity System.” Democracy Journal, February 20 2020.

Leah C. Stokes & Matto Mildenberger. “A Plan for Equitable Climate Policy in the United States.Washington Center for Equitable Growth, February 18 2020.

Leah C. Stokes. “With Hurricane Dorian looming, Democratic candidates discuss their climate plans tonight.” The Washington Post, September 6 2019.

Leah C. Stokes. “While the planet overheats, Ohio's coal industry gets a bailout.” The Guardian, July 28 2019.

Leah C. Stokes. “Alabama state legislators are wrong about their voters’ opinions on abortion.” The Washington Post, May 28 2019.

Leah C. Stokes, David Pellow & Emily Williams. “No to New Oil Drilling.” The Santa Barbara Independent, March 6 2019.

Leah Stokes. “Can the Green New Deal make it through Congress? Here are 5 things you need to know.” The Washington Post, February 21 2019.

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Matto Mildenberger & Leah C. Stokes. “Congress Has No Clue What Americans Want.” The New York Times, October 31 2018.

Nic Rivers & Leah C. Stokes. “Will household rebates really make Canadians warm to a carbon price?Maclean’s, October 27 2018.

Leah C. Stokes. "Trump's giveaway to Big Oil will accelerate climate change." CNN, August 7 2018.

Matto Mildenberger &  Leah C. Stokes. "No, we didn't almost solve the climate crisis in the 1980s." Vox, August 6 2018.

Leah C. Stokes. "Climate change is behind the global heatwave. Why won't the media say it?The Los Angeles Times, July 15 2018.

Leah C. Stokes. "Climate Change in my Backyard." The New York Times, January 11 2018.

Leah C. Stokes. "How Can Foundations Change Public Policy? The Case For Funding Grassroots NGOs." HistPhil, July 5 2017.

Leah C. Stokes & Matto Mildenberger. "The Politics of Equitable Climate Policy." Scholars Strategy Network Brief, 2016. 

Leah C. Stokes. "Governments who push popular climate policies can be punished at the ballot box by local and vocal minorities." LSE US American Politics and Policy Blog, November 18 2015.

Leah Stokes. "Ontario's Backward Step on Renewable Energy." Toronto Star, July 22 2013.