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Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.
What’s the best way to handle rising US electricity demand? Contrary to what some large utilities and regulators think, it’s not building new fossil gas…
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Why "transferable" tax credits are such a big deal
In this episode, CEO Alfred Johnson of Crux Climate explains how IRA making clean-energy tax credits transferable has created a market that is already…
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What's going on with China these days?
Is China on track to reduce its carbon emissions? If so, why is it building so much coal power? In this episode, researcher Lauri Myllyvirta brings data…
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Don't Look Up: the first good movie about climate change
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Rooftop solar and home batteries make a clean grid vastly more affordable
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Important puppy update!
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Welcome to Volts
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Nuclear? Perhaps!
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Volts Community Thread #05
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Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it
I speak with Maxine Bédat, a former fashion startup CEO and founder of the nonprofit New Standards Institute. We talk about the source of the fashion…
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How much can urban land use policy do for the climate?
Urbanists like to say that dense, walkable urban land use is a powerful climate tool. But what kind of emissions can urban land use really reduce? What…
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How the EPA will spend $27 billion in carbon-reduction funds
IRA included a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, $27 billion to be disseminated primarily in vulnerable and under-resourced communities for clean energy…
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58:58
Now is the time for distributed energy
Duncan Campbell of Scale Microgrid Solutions makes the case that distributed energy resources (DERs) — solar panels, EVs, home batteries, etc. — are…
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Mailbag episode - March 2024
In this mailbag episode, I answer questions about how the shift to podcasting affected my journalism, my appetite for confrontational podcasts…
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Biden sets out to supercharge industrial decarbonization
On Monday, the Biden administration announced over $6 billion in grants to industrial decarbonization projects in sectors ranging from steel to concrete…
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