Jonathan Lesser’s August 2013 “Energy and the Environment” column, “Rethinking Green Energy Mandates,” which is published in Natural Gas & Electricity, is now available. As he discusses, there is growing pushback against continued subsidies for wind and solar power, especially in Europe, because electric rates have soared, which is stifling economic growth.  As he notes in the column, “Quite simply, governments cannot subsidize their way to economic growth and well-being.”