Beyond Trayvon: How ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Spread from Florida to Half the U.S.

Ralph Izzo, the chief executive of the New Jersey’s Public Service Electric and Gas Co., isn’t your average utility executive.

At Columbia University, he studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate and later earned a doctorate in applied physics. At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, he did numerical simulations of fusion  experiments and published or presented 35 papers on something called “magnetohydrodynamic modeling.”  Read Full