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Hormuz and China’s Energy Advantage

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From the Archive: The Cost of Pulling Back from China in the EV Transition

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From the Archive: When the Last Mile Turns Hot: Delivery Drivers in a Warming Climate

4

Agriculture, Energy, and the Challenge of Resilience

5

Energy and the Economics of Affordability

6

The West’s New Electricity Markets

7

Is a New Era of Electricity Prices Beginning?

8

The Fight Over the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

9

From Corporate Standard to Climate Policy: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

10

When Geopolitics Disrupts Energy Systems

11

Insurance and the Shifting Boundaries of Climate Risk

12

The Arctic and the Geopolitics of Strategic Minerals

13

The Endangerment Finding and the Future of EPA’s Authority

14

When Oil Sanctions Meet Dark Shipping

15

How PJM Is Grappling With Data Center Power Demand

16

Planning the Grid in an Age of Uncertain Demand Growth

17

Why a New Gas Power Boom Is Putting Methane Emissions Back in the Spotlight

18

When the Last Mile Turns Hot: Delivery Drivers in a Warming Climate

19

The Cost of Pulling Back from China in the EV Transition

20

How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Nuclear Oversight

21

U.S. Offshore Wind at an Impasse

22

Why Energy Inequities Could Persist in the Clean Energy Transition

23

Union Leaders Push Clean Energy Jobs Agenda in Pennsylvania

24

The Conflicted Role of Auditors in Carbon Markets

25

U.S.–China Competition in the Age of Trump’s Energy Law

26

From the Energy Policy Now Archive: How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid

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From the Energy Policy Now Archive: Bridging the Partisan Climate Divide

28

Why This Energy Transition is Different

29

Will Interconnection Reform Unlock the Grid?

30

Will "Big Beautiful Bill” Derail Clean Energy Growth?

31

Renewable Energy’s Land Use Reckoning

32

Consumers on the Sidelines? The Fight Over the Grid’s Future

33

Beyond Yield: Climate, Nutrition and the Future of Farming

34

Planning for Net Zero in an Imperfect World

35

Can California’s Emissions Market Survive Past 2030?

36

Bridging the Partisan Climate Divide

37

Carbon Tariffs & Global Trade: Inside the EU’s CBAM Plan

38

The Midwest's Big Bet on Clean Electricity Transmission

39

The Future of Electricity Demand in the AI Era

40

North America’s Looming Electricity Supply Shortages

41

Rethinking Air Conditioning in A Hotter World

42

Could Clean Energy Thrive Despite Trump Policy Changes?

43

Why Electrical Grid Governance Needs Reforming

44

Empowering Communities for Climate and Energy Justice

45

Beyond Labor: The Expanding Scope of the Just Energy Transition

46

How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid

47

How Identity Politics Shape U.S. Energy Policy

48

Why AI Consumes So Much Energy - and What Might Be Done About It

49

Exploring Electricity Pricing: Are Alternatives to Flat-Rate Plans Worth It?

50

From the Archive: Michael Mann on the Lessons of Climate Past

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From the Archive: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Rising Prospects for a U.S. Carbon Border Fee

52

Navigating the Geopolitical Risks of Solar Geoengineering

53

The Crisis of Confidence in Voluntary Carbon Offsets

54

Why New Tech is Key for EPA Methane Rule Compliance

55

Can the Global LNG Market Support U.S. Export Ambitions?

56

Power Struggle: The Electric Grid’s Natural Gas Challenge

57

Will Latest Solar Trade Dispute Impact U.S. Solar Growth?

58

California’s Solar Equity Challenge

59

Can Competitive Electricity Markets Deliver Reliable Power?

60

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Rising Prospects for a U.S. Carbon Border Fee

61

Will Hydrogen Energy be Clean Energy?

62

Europe Confronts the Reality of Energy System Sabotage

63

Accelerating the Energy Transition with Repurposed Energy

64

Special Episode: Corporate Disclosure Law

65

The CO2 Transportation Challenge

66

AI’s Big Future in Energy and Climate Regulation

67

FERC Transmission Reform: A New Year's Resolution?

68

Why the IRA’s Carbon Capture Tax Credit Could Increase Greenhouse Emissions

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Aligning Clean Energy Policy with Grid Reliability

70

What’s a “Fair Share” Of Emissions Reductions Under the Paris Climate Process?

71

The U.S.'s Critical Mineral Supply Challenge

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How Uruguay Went (Almost Completely) Fossil Fuel Free

73

Michael Mann on the Lessons of Climate Change Past

74

Why Oil Companies Support Renewable Energy

75

America’s Electric Power Transmission Crisis

76

Loss and Damage Finance Becomes Reality

77

California’s Deepwater Wind Challenge

78

Tackling Climate Technology Investment Risk

79

Pennsylvania Effort to Join RGGI Faces Legal, Political Peril

80

Geography, Equity and the Energy Transition

81

Breaking the Bottlenecks to Climate Progress

82

Energy Transition Puts Grid Reliability to the Test

83

Accelerating Climate Action

84

Climate Shocks and Green Returns

85

How Families Cope with Energy Insecurity

86

Scaling Private Finance for Global Solar Growth

87

The Complex, Politically Fraught Path to Building Electrification

88

Will New Technology and Climate Change Save Nuclear Power?

89

China Plays Competitor, and Collaborator, in the Energy Transition

90

Overcoming Economic Barriers to Electrifying Everything

91

Energy Transition and Opportunity in the Oil Patch

92

COP27 Dispatch: The Struggle for Agricultural Sustainability Under Climate Stress

93

COP27 Dispatch: Can the COP Process Deliver Climate Action?

94

COP27 Dispatch: Food Waste Gains Attention in Climate Discussions

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COP27 Dispatch: China’s Rapidly Evolving Role in Global Climate Negotiations

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COP27 Dispatch: As Climate Impacts Grow, Cities Explore Paths to Adaptation

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COP27 Dispatch: What Defines a Successful National Adaptation Plan?

98

COP27 Dispatch: Why Loss and Damage Finance is Critical to Small Island States

99

What Impact Will the IRA Have On Consumer Energy Costs?

100

How Coal Maintains Its Political Hold on West Virginia

101

Scaling Green Hydrogen for a Global Market

102

Saudi Arabia Confronts Its Oil Dependence

103

Can Clean Energy Deliver Energy Justice to Canada’s First Nations?

104

Proposed FERC Rules Aim to Accelerate Grid Decarbonization

105

Can Carbon-Negative Oil Be Climate Positive?

106

Will Defense Production Act Spur Solar Supply Chain Development?

107

How Will Energy Dollars in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Be Spent?

108

Raw Materials Pose ESG Challenge for EV Industry

109

Governing Net-Zero Emissions Targets

110

Governing the Promise and Peril Of Emerging Climate Technologies

111

Nicholas Stern on the Role of Economics in Combatting Climate Change

112

Energy And The War In Ukraine

113

Will Clean Energy Be Equitable Energy?

114

Organized Labor Sees Promise in Transition to Clean Energy

115

Climate Leader Germany Faces Challenging Exit from Coal

116

How Big Is LNG Opportunity for U.S. Natural Gas Industry?

117

What Makes Green Energy Finance Green?

118

For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await

119

U.S. Electricity Regulator Grapples with Barriers to a Clean Grid

120

China's Energy and Climate Balancing Act

121

Massive Shift Toward Solar Power Begins In Largest U.S. Electricity Market

122

Who Pays the Price for Stranded Energy Assets?

123

What Stands Between Louisiana and a Resilient Electric Grid?

124

Can Americans Afford to Fully Electrify Their Homes?

125

Rare Earth Elements Raise Environmental, Economic Risks for Clean Energy

126

As Climate Concerns Rise, What Role Will Natural Gas Play?

127

Why Is it So Hard to Build the Electric Grid of the Future?

128

Can the FERC Be Made Accountable to Communities and the Environment?

129

Coal Communities Seek Their Post-Coal Future

130

Powering Women’s Economic Development Through Equal Access to Energy

131

The Potential, and Risks, of Nature-Based Climate Solutions

132

Combating Energy Poverty in the U.S.

133

How Big A Threat Is The Supreme Court To Biden’s Climate Agenda?

134

A Primer On Carbon Dioxide Removal

135

What’s Driving Corporate America’s Big Bets on Clean Energy?

136

The U.S. Is Back In Paris. Will It Regain Its Role As Climate Leader?

137

What Motivates People To Take Action On Climate Change?

138

Janet Yellen And The Treasury Take On Climate Change

139

Europe Maps Out Its Hydrogen Energy Strategy

140

Energy Storage's Seasonal Challenge

141

How Georgia’s Runoff Election Will Shape Joe Biden’s Clean Energy Strategy

142

Offshore Wind Presents Big Challenge for the Electric Grid

143

Grid Forward Debate: Has Electricity Deregulation Led to Better Community Outcomes?

144

U.S. Electricity Regulator Takes a Hard Look at Carbon Pricing

145

Zoning Rules Stifle Urban Clean Energy. Can The Rules Be Rewritten?

146

As Climate-Related Disasters Intensify, Retreat Emerges as Adaptation Strategy

147

The Human History of Climate Change

148

Questioning the Promise of Carbon Tax Border Adjustments

149

Will Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Survive?

150

Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon

151

How a Green New Deal Could Redraw America's Map

152

Why Americans Want a Carbon Tax, But Won’t Support One at the Polls

153

Developing the Electric Grid for Carbon-Free Energy

154

How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy

155

As Residential Solar’s Capabilities Expand, Does New Growth Await?

156

The Struggle for Local Control Over Energy Development

157

Will the Clean Energy Transition Bring Energy Equality?

158

The Challenge of Scaling Negative Emissions

159

Energy Transition Challenges for the 2020s

160

Following Refinery Blast, Philadelphia Looks to a Cleaner Future

161

Climate Negotiator Contemplates Future of Paris Agreement Without the U.S.

162

Is Climate Risk Insurable?

163

Power of Siberia Pipeline Strengthens Russia-China Ties

164

Airlines Struggle to Rise to Climate Challenge

165

Rethinking Global Emissions Trading

166

Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Electricity System

167

The Rise of Partisan Politics in Energy Regulation

168

The Path Forward for Grid Electricity Storage

169

Debunking the "War on Coal"

170

Climate Denialism, Florida, and the Future of Climate Politics

171

How the Democratic-Republican Climate Rift Became Political Reality

172

Breaking America's Nuclear Waste Impasse

173

Does Attribution Science Give Climate Litigators a Smoking Gun?

174

Three Pathways to Uphold America’s Paris Commitment

175

Why Coal Persists

176

What’s the FERC, and How is it Shaping Our Energy Future? (Part 2)

177

What’s the FERC, and How is it Shaping Our Energy Future? (Part 1)

178

An Inside Look at the UN’s Effort to End Energy Poverty (and Fight Climate Change)

179

A Hard Look at Negative Emissions

180

200 Years of Energy History in 30 Minutes (And What We Might Learn for the Future)

181

Can Norway’s State Oil Company Be A Climate Champion?

182

Getting to the Right Carbon Price

183

China's EV Juggernaut

184

Where does the Defense Department Really Stand on Climate?

185

Welcome to the Anthropocene, Our New Biogeophysical Home

186

Bold Climate Policy Is Coming. Investors, Take Note

187

Vox’s David Roberts on Energy, Climate, and the Media

188

As India Eliminates Energy Poverty, Can It Also Fight Climate Change?

189

The Battle Over Methane Leaks

190

What IPCC 1.5 Degree Report Means for Global Climate Action

191

Gas Pipelines: A Threat to Grid Resilience?

192

Grid Resilience in the Cyber Age

193

Decision Making for Climate Leaders

194

Handicapping EPA's Deregulatory Climate Agenda

195

U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Arrives

196

Ending Water Wars

197

Trade Policy, Markets Trump Administration's Fossil Fuel Efforts

198

Alaska in Energy Spotlight as New Arctic Drilling Looms

199

Are 100% Renewable Energy Targets Realistic?

200

Distributed Energy's Cyber Risk

201

An EPA After Scott Pruitt

202

The Legal Limits to State Climate Action

203

Rising Seas and the Future of Coastal Cities

204

Lessons From a Decade of Cap & Trade

205

The Promise and Perils of Self-Driving Trucks

206

The Future of Nuclear Host Communities

207

Envisioning a Low Carbon, Lowest Cost Grid

208

The Local View of Fracking

209

Corporations Deepen Clean Energy Commitments

210

Grid Operator PJM Talks Details of Energy Price Formation

211

India's Now or Never Climate Opportunity

212

Distributed Energy's Wholesale Opportunity

213

A City Blazes Its Clean Energy Trail

214

Building Resilient Coastlines

215

The Future of the EPA and Clean Power

216

Where Coal Mining Brings Environmental Benefits

217

The Road Forward for Electric Vehicles

218

Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Environmental Regulation

219

Can Nuclear Bailouts and Electricity Markets Coexist?

220

Climate Change and the Future of Risk

221

The Economics of Climate Change

222

Carbon Capture's Clean Coal Ambition

223

Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Should They Stay or Should They Go?

224

Without the U.S., Does Paris Climate Deal Collapse?

225

The Many Fronts of Trump's Environmental Deregulation Effort

226

Distributed Energy: Utilities' Existential Challenge?

227

Clearing the Air - Carbon Tax or Cap and Trade?

228

How U.S. LNG is Changing the Global Gas Market

229

How Alberta Overcame Discord to Enact Carbon Tax

230

Advancing Energy Storage

231

The Airline Industry Eyes its Carbon Footprint

232

The Energy Sector Confronts Cyber Risk

233

Walking the Tightrope: Energy Development and the Environment

234

20 Years of Electricity Restructuring in Pennsylvania