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Energy Policy Now — 228 episodes
Is a New Era of Electricity Prices Beginning?
The Fight Over the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
From Corporate Standard to Climate Policy: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
When Geopolitics Disrupts Energy Systems
Insurance and the Shifting Boundaries of Climate Risk
The Arctic and the Geopolitics of Strategic Minerals
The Endangerment Finding and the Future of EPA’s Authority
When Oil Sanctions Meet Dark Shipping
How PJM Is Grappling With Data Center Power Demand
Planning the Grid in an Age of Uncertain Demand Growth
Why a New Gas Power Boom Is Putting Methane Emissions Back in the Spotlight
When the Last Mile Turns Hot: Delivery Drivers in a Warming Climate
The Cost of Pulling Back from China in the EV Transition
How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Nuclear Oversight
U.S. Offshore Wind at an Impasse
Why Energy Inequities Could Persist in the Clean Energy Transition
Union Leaders Push Clean Energy Jobs Agenda in Pennsylvania
The Conflicted Role of Auditors in Carbon Markets
U.S.–China Competition in the Age of Trump’s Energy Law
From the Energy Policy Now Archive: How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid
From the Energy Policy Now Archive: Bridging the Partisan Climate Divide
Why This Energy Transition is Different
Will Interconnection Reform Unlock the Grid?
Will "Big Beautiful Bill” Derail Clean Energy Growth?
Renewable Energy’s Land Use Reckoning
Consumers on the Sidelines? The Fight Over the Grid’s Future
Beyond Yield: Climate, Nutrition and the Future of Farming
Planning for Net Zero in an Imperfect World
Can California’s Emissions Market Survive Past 2030?
Bridging the Partisan Climate Divide
Carbon Tariffs & Global Trade: Inside the EU’s CBAM Plan
The Midwest's Big Bet on Clean Electricity Transmission
The Future of Electricity Demand in the AI Era
North America’s Looming Electricity Supply Shortages
Rethinking Air Conditioning in A Hotter World
Could Clean Energy Thrive Despite Trump Policy Changes?
Why Electrical Grid Governance Needs Reforming
Empowering Communities for Climate and Energy Justice
Beyond Labor: The Expanding Scope of the Just Energy Transition
How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid
How Identity Politics Shape U.S. Energy Policy
Why AI Consumes So Much Energy - and What Might Be Done About It
Exploring Electricity Pricing: Are Alternatives to Flat-Rate Plans Worth It?
From the Archive: Michael Mann on the Lessons of Climate Past
From the Archive: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Rising Prospects for a U.S. Carbon Border Fee
Navigating the Geopolitical Risks of Solar Geoengineering
The Crisis of Confidence in Voluntary Carbon Offsets
Why New Tech is Key for EPA Methane Rule Compliance
Can the Global LNG Market Support U.S. Export Ambitions?
Power Struggle: The Electric Grid’s Natural Gas Challenge
Will Latest Solar Trade Dispute Impact U.S. Solar Growth?
California’s Solar Equity Challenge
Can Competitive Electricity Markets Deliver Reliable Power?
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Rising Prospects for a U.S. Carbon Border Fee
Will Hydrogen Energy be Clean Energy?
Europe Confronts the Reality of Energy System Sabotage
Accelerating the Energy Transition with Repurposed Energy
Special Episode: Corporate Disclosure Law
The CO2 Transportation Challenge
AI’s Big Future in Energy and Climate Regulation
FERC Transmission Reform: A New Year's Resolution?
Why the IRA’s Carbon Capture Tax Credit Could Increase Greenhouse Emissions
Aligning Clean Energy Policy with Grid Reliability
What’s a “Fair Share” Of Emissions Reductions Under the Paris Climate Process?
The U.S.'s Critical Mineral Supply Challenge
How Uruguay Went (Almost Completely) Fossil Fuel Free
Michael Mann on the Lessons of Climate Change Past
Why Oil Companies Support Renewable Energy
America’s Electric Power Transmission Crisis
Loss and Damage Finance Becomes Reality
California’s Deepwater Wind Challenge
Tackling Climate Technology Investment Risk
Pennsylvania Effort to Join RGGI Faces Legal, Political Peril
Geography, Equity and the Energy Transition
Breaking the Bottlenecks to Climate Progress
Energy Transition Puts Grid Reliability to the Test
Accelerating Climate Action
Climate Shocks and Green Returns
How Families Cope with Energy Insecurity
Scaling Private Finance for Global Solar Growth
The Complex, Politically Fraught Path to Building Electrification
Will New Technology and Climate Change Save Nuclear Power?
China Plays Competitor, and Collaborator, in the Energy Transition
Overcoming Economic Barriers to Electrifying Everything
Energy Transition and Opportunity in the Oil Patch
COP27 Dispatch: The Struggle for Agricultural Sustainability Under Climate Stress
COP27 Dispatch: Can the COP Process Deliver Climate Action?
COP27 Dispatch: Food Waste Gains Attention in Climate Discussions
COP27 Dispatch: China’s Rapidly Evolving Role in Global Climate Negotiations
COP27 Dispatch: As Climate Impacts Grow, Cities Explore Paths to Adaptation
COP27 Dispatch: What Defines a Successful National Adaptation Plan?
COP27 Dispatch: Why Loss and Damage Finance is Critical to Small Island States
What Impact Will the IRA Have On Consumer Energy Costs?
How Coal Maintains Its Political Hold on West Virginia
Scaling Green Hydrogen for a Global Market
Saudi Arabia Confronts Its Oil Dependence
Can Clean Energy Deliver Energy Justice to Canada’s First Nations?
Proposed FERC Rules Aim to Accelerate Grid Decarbonization
Can Carbon-Negative Oil Be Climate Positive?
Will Defense Production Act Spur Solar Supply Chain Development?
How Will Energy Dollars in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Be Spent?
Raw Materials Pose ESG Challenge for EV Industry
Governing Net-Zero Emissions Targets
Governing the Promise and Peril Of Emerging Climate Technologies
Nicholas Stern on the Role of Economics in Combatting Climate Change
Energy And The War In Ukraine
Will Clean Energy Be Equitable Energy?
Organized Labor Sees Promise in Transition to Clean Energy
Climate Leader Germany Faces Challenging Exit from Coal
How Big Is LNG Opportunity for U.S. Natural Gas Industry?
What Makes Green Energy Finance Green?
For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await
U.S. Electricity Regulator Grapples with Barriers to a Clean Grid
China's Energy and Climate Balancing Act
Massive Shift Toward Solar Power Begins In Largest U.S. Electricity Market
Who Pays the Price for Stranded Energy Assets?
What Stands Between Louisiana and a Resilient Electric Grid?
Can Americans Afford to Fully Electrify Their Homes?
Rare Earth Elements Raise Environmental, Economic Risks for Clean Energy
As Climate Concerns Rise, What Role Will Natural Gas Play?
Why Is it So Hard to Build the Electric Grid of the Future?
Can the FERC Be Made Accountable to Communities and the Environment?
Coal Communities Seek Their Post-Coal Future
Powering Women’s Economic Development Through Equal Access to Energy
The Potential, and Risks, of Nature-Based Climate Solutions
Combating Energy Poverty in the U.S.
How Big A Threat Is The Supreme Court To Biden’s Climate Agenda?
A Primer On Carbon Dioxide Removal
What’s Driving Corporate America’s Big Bets on Clean Energy?
The U.S. Is Back In Paris. Will It Regain Its Role As Climate Leader?
What Motivates People To Take Action On Climate Change?
Janet Yellen And The Treasury Take On Climate Change
Europe Maps Out Its Hydrogen Energy Strategy
Energy Storage's Seasonal Challenge
How Georgia’s Runoff Election Will Shape Joe Biden’s Clean Energy Strategy
Offshore Wind Presents Big Challenge for the Electric Grid
Grid Forward Debate: Has Electricity Deregulation Led to Better Community Outcomes?
U.S. Electricity Regulator Takes a Hard Look at Carbon Pricing
Zoning Rules Stifle Urban Clean Energy. Can The Rules Be Rewritten?
As Climate-Related Disasters Intensify, Retreat Emerges as Adaptation Strategy
The Human History of Climate Change
Questioning the Promise of Carbon Tax Border Adjustments
Will Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Survive?
Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon
How a Green New Deal Could Redraw America's Map
Why Americans Want a Carbon Tax, But Won’t Support One at the Polls
Developing the Electric Grid for Carbon-Free Energy
How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy
As Residential Solar’s Capabilities Expand, Does New Growth Await?
The Struggle for Local Control Over Energy Development
Will the Clean Energy Transition Bring Energy Equality?
The Challenge of Scaling Negative Emissions
Energy Transition Challenges for the 2020s
Following Refinery Blast, Philadelphia Looks to a Cleaner Future
Climate Negotiator Contemplates Future of Paris Agreement Without the U.S.
Is Climate Risk Insurable?
Power of Siberia Pipeline Strengthens Russia-China Ties
Airlines Struggle to Rise to Climate Challenge
Rethinking Global Emissions Trading
Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Electricity System
The Rise of Partisan Politics in Energy Regulation
The Path Forward for Grid Electricity Storage
Debunking the "War on Coal"
Climate Denialism, Florida, and the Future of Climate Politics
How the Democratic-Republican Climate Rift Became Political Reality
Breaking America's Nuclear Waste Impasse
Does Attribution Science Give Climate Litigators a Smoking Gun?
Three Pathways to Uphold America’s Paris Commitment
Why Coal Persists
What’s the FERC, and How is it Shaping Our Energy Future? (Part 2)
What’s the FERC, and How is it Shaping Our Energy Future? (Part 1)
An Inside Look at the UN’s Effort to End Energy Poverty (and Fight Climate Change)
A Hard Look at Negative Emissions
200 Years of Energy History in 30 Minutes (And What We Might Learn for the Future)
Can Norway’s State Oil Company Be A Climate Champion?
Getting to the Right Carbon Price
China's EV Juggernaut
Where does the Defense Department Really Stand on Climate?
Welcome to the Anthropocene, Our New Biogeophysical Home
Bold Climate Policy Is Coming. Investors, Take Note
Vox’s David Roberts on Energy, Climate, and the Media
As India Eliminates Energy Poverty, Can It Also Fight Climate Change?
The Battle Over Methane Leaks
What IPCC 1.5 Degree Report Means for Global Climate Action
Gas Pipelines: A Threat to Grid Resilience?
Grid Resilience in the Cyber Age
Decision Making for Climate Leaders
Handicapping EPA's Deregulatory Climate Agenda
U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Arrives
Ending Water Wars
Trade Policy, Markets Trump Administration's Fossil Fuel Efforts
Alaska in Energy Spotlight as New Arctic Drilling Looms
Are 100% Renewable Energy Targets Realistic?
Distributed Energy's Cyber Risk
An EPA After Scott Pruitt
The Legal Limits to State Climate Action
Rising Seas and the Future of Coastal Cities
Lessons From a Decade of Cap & Trade
The Promise and Perils of Self-Driving Trucks
The Future of Nuclear Host Communities
Envisioning a Low Carbon, Lowest Cost Grid
The Local View of Fracking
Corporations Deepen Clean Energy Commitments
Grid Operator PJM Talks Details of Energy Price Formation
India's Now or Never Climate Opportunity
Distributed Energy's Wholesale Opportunity
A City Blazes Its Clean Energy Trail
Building Resilient Coastlines
The Future of the EPA and Clean Power
Where Coal Mining Brings Environmental Benefits
The Road Forward for Electric Vehicles
Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Environmental Regulation
Can Nuclear Bailouts and Electricity Markets Coexist?
Climate Change and the Future of Risk
The Economics of Climate Change
Carbon Capture's Clean Coal Ambition
Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
Without the U.S., Does Paris Climate Deal Collapse?
The Many Fronts of Trump's Environmental Deregulation Effort
Distributed Energy: Utilities' Existential Challenge?
Clearing the Air - Carbon Tax or Cap and Trade?
How U.S. LNG is Changing the Global Gas Market
How Alberta Overcame Discord to Enact Carbon Tax
Advancing Energy Storage
The Airline Industry Eyes its Carbon Footprint
The Energy Sector Confronts Cyber Risk
Walking the Tightrope: Energy Development and the Environment
20 Years of Electricity Restructuring in Pennsylvania