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What should state policymakers do about data centers?
A conversation with Saleem Chapman of Climate Cabinet.
 • David Roberts
1:01:57
The escalating battle over renewable energy certificates (RECs)
A conversation with Wilson Ricks and Killian Daly.
 • David Roberts
1:09:27
Volts podcast: using DOE loan guarantees to accelerate clean energy, with Jigar Shah
He's remaking the Loan Programs Office.
 • David Roberts
50:04
Minerals and the clean-energy transition: the basics
A challenge, but not a dealbreaker.
 • David Roberts
19:37
Discussion thread: materials and mining
The rapid proliferation of batteries and solar panels has highlighted the environmental and ethical issues involved in mining key materials like lithium…
 • David Roberts
Volts podcast: the good news about clean energy, with Kingsmill Bond
The transition to a system based on renewables is accelerating and unstoppable.
 • David Roberts
1:03:20
A rant about economist pundits, and other things, but mostly economist pundits
Read the room.
 • David Roberts
16:00
Taking an Uber or Lyft just makes everything worse
The only real answer, as always, is fewer cars.
 • David Roberts
13:11
Volts podcast: 20 years of solar advocacy, with Adam Browning of Vote Solar
Lessons learned and what's ahead for solar.
 • David Roberts
1:02:07
Volts podcast: Sen. Tina Smith on the promise of a Clean Electricity Payment Program
Democrats are about to pass the biggest clean energy policy ever. Maybe.
 • David Roberts
36:44
Volts podcast: the immense promise of a federal green bank, with Reed Hundt
The coolest climate policy you don't know about.
 • David Roberts
50:58
There's real long-duration energy storage now. Can it find a market?
How Form Energy might grow.
 • David Roberts
12:04
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