The politicization of climate policy is having a profoundly counterproductive impact on our ability to accomplish meaningful reductions in GHG emissions from the energy sector. In statehouses across the country, we’re asking legislators to do some of the hardest and most consequential work of their careers with a half-empty toolbox. We’re shutting entire industries out of the solutions process, some at the forefront of decarbonization technology and research. Too often, we’re allowing electoral outcomes – rather than science and data – to guide our approach to climate change. As a result, we’re making no more than incremental progress, at best.