Improving women’s lives through energy: what Rick Perry got right and wrong

Access to energy can help promote women’s rights and improve their lives, particularly in developing nations, write Sheril Kirshenbaum and Prof. Michael Webber in a new op-ed. That said, the authors dispute U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s claim that burning fossil fuels for electricity generation will prevent sexual assaults on women, noting that clean-burning fuels, efficient technology and electricity produced from renewable sources can lift women out of poverty without endangering their health or welfare. For more, read their entire op-ed in The Conversation.