This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Writing clean energy policies and implementing them is hard. It takes experts. Those people serve on task forces, stay up late writing policy briefs and fret over the details. In an era when many states are making rapid progress to reduce emissions, the experts are working harder than ever—and they’re tired. Autumn Proudlove, associate director of the NC Clean Energy Technology Center at North Carolina State University, has heard others refer to this as “stakeholder fatigue.” She wonders if the overwork of subject-matter experts may limit how much states can accomplish on clean energy policy.