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How big business sold America the myth of the free marketThe Big Myth, a new book from Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, tells the story of how big business mounted a series of massive, well-funded propaganda…
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Clean energy's yearly report cardEvery year, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy partners with BloombergNEF to produce the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook, a compilation…
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Taking carbon out of the air and putting it into concreteA newly announced project will combine two cutting-edge processes: one will pull CO2 out of the ambient air; the other will inject the CO2 into…
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February 2023

How to think about solar radiation managementGlobal temperatures are likely to rise over the next 30 to 40 years no matter what we do. One way to mitigate those short-term risks is to seed the…
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Meet the author of Biden's industrial strategyBrian Deese was a top economic adviser to Obama and in 2020 became the director of Biden's National Economic Council and the primary author of the…
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The digital circuit breaker and why it mattersThe humble circuit breaker is one of the most ubiquitous & overlooked building blocks of the electricity grid. I talk with an inventor/entrepreneur who…
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Minnesota sets out for zero-carbon electricity by 2040Democrats have wasted no time after winning a trifecta in Minnesota in 2022. Less than six weeks after taking control of government, they have passed a…
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Utilities are lobbying against the public interest. Here's how to stop it.Utilities use money gathered from their captive customers to lobby against the clean-energy transition. I talk with a utility watchdog about the rules…
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Decarbonizing US transportation with an eye toward global justiceTo decarbonize US transportation, we have to electrify vehicles, which means more demand for lithium & more nasty mining. But the number of vehicles is…
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Getting electric school buses in the hands of school districtsElectric school buses reduce children's exposure to air and noise pollution, but they still cost two to three times what their competitors cost. A…
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What's the deal with electrolyzers?Hydrogen is expected to play a big role in a decarbonized energy system, but the only way to make it without greenhouse gas emissions is through…
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January 2023

On the abuse (and proper use) of climate modelsI talk with researcher Erica Thompson about her new book, "Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About…
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