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Energy Policy Now — 225 episodes

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When Geopolitics Disrupts Energy Systems

2

Insurance and the Shifting Boundaries of Climate Risk

3

The Arctic and the Geopolitics of Strategic Minerals

4

The Endangerment Finding and the Future of EPA’s Authority

5

When Oil Sanctions Meet Dark Shipping

6

How PJM Is Grappling With Data Center Power Demand

7

Planning the Grid in an Age of Uncertain Demand Growth

8

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

9

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

10

The Cost of Pulling Back from China in the EV Transition

11

How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Nuclear Oversight

12

U.S. Offshore Wind at an Impasse

13

Why Energy Inequities Could Persist in the Clean Energy Transition

14

Union Leaders Push Clean Energy Jobs Agenda in Pennsylvania

15

The Conflicted Role of Auditors in Carbon Markets

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

Why This Energy Transition is Different

20

Will Interconnection Reform Unlock the Grid?

21

Will "Big Beautiful Bill” Derail Clean Energy Growth?

22

Renewable Energy’s Land Use Reckoning

23

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

24

Beyond Yield: Climate, Nutrition and the Future of Farming

25

Planning for Net Zero in an Imperfect World

26

Can California’s Emissions Market Survive Past 2030?

27

Bridging the Partisan Climate Divide

28

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

29

The Midwest's Big Bet on Clean Electricity Transmission

30

The Future of Electricity Demand in the AI Era

31

North America’s Looming Electricity Supply Shortages

32

Rethinking Air Conditioning in A Hotter World

33

Could Clean Energy Thrive Despite Trump Policy Changes?

34

Why Electrical Grid Governance Needs Reforming

35

Empowering Communities for Climate and Energy Justice

36

Beyond Labor: The Expanding Scope of the Just Energy Transition

37

How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid

38

How Identity Politics Shape U.S. Energy Policy

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

Navigating the Geopolitical Risks of Solar Geoengineering

44

The Crisis of Confidence in Voluntary Carbon Offsets

45

Why New Tech is Key for EPA Methane Rule Compliance

46

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

47

Power Struggle: The Electric Grid’s Natural Gas Challenge

48

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

49

California’s Solar Equity Challenge

50

Can Competitive Electricity Markets Deliver Reliable Power?

51

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

52

Will Hydrogen Energy be Clean Energy?

53

Europe Confronts the Reality of Energy System Sabotage

54

Accelerating the Energy Transition with Repurposed Energy

55

Special Episode: Corporate Disclosure Law

56

The CO2 Transportation Challenge

57

AI’s Big Future in Energy and Climate Regulation

58

FERC Transmission Reform: A New Year's Resolution?

59

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

60

Aligning Clean Energy Policy with Grid Reliability

61

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

62

The U.S.'s Critical Mineral Supply Challenge

63

How Uruguay Went (Almost Completely) Fossil Fuel Free

64

Michael Mann on the Lessons of Climate Change Past

65

Why Oil Companies Support Renewable Energy

66

America’s Electric Power Transmission Crisis

67

Loss and Damage Finance Becomes Reality

68

California’s Deepwater Wind Challenge

69

Tackling Climate Technology Investment Risk

70

Pennsylvania Effort to Join RGGI Faces Legal, Political Peril

71

Geography, Equity and the Energy Transition

72

Breaking the Bottlenecks to Climate Progress

73

Energy Transition Puts Grid Reliability to the Test

74

Accelerating Climate Action

75

Climate Shocks and Green Returns

76

How Families Cope with Energy Insecurity

77

Scaling Private Finance for Global Solar Growth

78

The Complex, Politically Fraught Path to Building Electrification

79

Will New Technology and Climate Change Save Nuclear Power?

80

China Plays Competitor, and Collaborator, in the Energy Transition

81

Overcoming Economic Barriers to Electrifying Everything

82

Energy Transition and Opportunity in the Oil Patch

83

COP27 Dispatch: The Struggle for Agricultural Sustainability Under Climate Stress

84

COP27 Dispatch: Can the COP Process Deliver Climate Action?

85

COP27 Dispatch: Food Waste Gains Attention in Climate Discussions

86

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

88

COP27 Dispatch: What Defines a Successful National Adaptation Plan?

89

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

90

What Impact Will the IRA Have On Consumer Energy Costs?

91

How Coal Maintains Its Political Hold on West Virginia

92

Scaling Green Hydrogen for a Global Market

93

Saudi Arabia Confronts Its Oil Dependence

94

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

95

Proposed FERC Rules Aim to Accelerate Grid Decarbonization

96

Can Carbon-Negative Oil Be Climate Positive?

97

Will Defense Production Act Spur Solar Supply Chain Development?

98

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

99

Raw Materials Pose ESG Challenge for EV Industry

100

Governing Net-Zero Emissions Targets

101

Governing the Promise and Peril Of Emerging Climate Technologies

102

Nicholas Stern on the Role of Economics in Combatting Climate Change

103

Energy And The War In Ukraine

104

Will Clean Energy Be Equitable Energy?

105

Organized Labor Sees Promise in Transition to Clean Energy

106

Climate Leader Germany Faces Challenging Exit from Coal

107

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

108

What Makes Green Energy Finance Green?

109

For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await

110

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

111

China's Energy and Climate Balancing Act

112

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

113

Who Pays the Price for Stranded Energy Assets?

114

What Stands Between Louisiana and a Resilient Electric Grid?

115

Can Americans Afford to Fully Electrify Their Homes?

116

Rare Earth Elements Raise Environmental, Economic Risks for Clean Energy

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

Coal Communities Seek Their Post-Coal Future

121

Powering Women’s Economic Development Through Equal Access to Energy

122

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

123

Combating Energy Poverty in the U.S.

124

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

125

A Primer On Carbon Dioxide Removal

126

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

127

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

128

What Motivates People To Take Action On Climate Change?

129

Janet Yellen And The Treasury Take On Climate Change

130

Europe Maps Out Its Hydrogen Energy Strategy

131

Energy Storage's Seasonal Challenge

132

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

133

Offshore Wind Presents Big Challenge for the Electric Grid

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

The Human History of Climate Change

139

Questioning the Promise of Carbon Tax Border Adjustments

140

Will Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Survive?

141

Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon

142

How a Green New Deal Could Redraw America's Map

143

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

144

Developing the Electric Grid for Carbon-Free Energy

145

How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy

146

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

147

The Struggle for Local Control Over Energy Development

148

Will the Clean Energy Transition Bring Energy Equality?

149

The Challenge of Scaling Negative Emissions

150

Energy Transition Challenges for the 2020s

151

Following Refinery Blast, Philadelphia Looks to a Cleaner Future

152

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

153

Is Climate Risk Insurable?

154

Power of Siberia Pipeline Strengthens Russia-China Ties

155

Airlines Struggle to Rise to Climate Challenge

156

Rethinking Global Emissions Trading

157

Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Electricity System

158

The Rise of Partisan Politics in Energy Regulation

159

The Path Forward for Grid Electricity Storage

160

Debunking the "War on Coal"

161

Climate Denialism, Florida, and the Future of Climate Politics

162

How the Democratic-Republican Climate Rift Became Political Reality

163

Breaking America's Nuclear Waste Impasse

164

Does Attribution Science Give Climate Litigators a Smoking Gun?

165

Three Pathways to Uphold America’s Paris Commitment

166

Why Coal Persists

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

A Hard Look at Negative Emissions

171

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

172

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

173

Getting to the Right Carbon Price

174

China's EV Juggernaut

175

Where does the Defense Department Really Stand on Climate?

176

Welcome to the Anthropocene, Our New Biogeophysical Home

177

Bold Climate Policy Is Coming. Investors, Take Note

178

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

179

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

180

The Battle Over Methane Leaks

181

What IPCC 1.5 Degree Report Means for Global Climate Action

182

Gas Pipelines: A Threat to Grid Resilience?

183

Grid Resilience in the Cyber Age

184

Decision Making for Climate Leaders

185

Handicapping EPA's Deregulatory Climate Agenda

186

U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Arrives

187

Ending Water Wars

188

Trade Policy, Markets Trump Administration's Fossil Fuel Efforts

189

Alaska in Energy Spotlight as New Arctic Drilling Looms

190

Are 100% Renewable Energy Targets Realistic?

191

Distributed Energy's Cyber Risk

192

An EPA After Scott Pruitt

193

The Legal Limits to State Climate Action

194

Rising Seas and the Future of Coastal Cities

195

Lessons From a Decade of Cap & Trade

196

The Promise and Perils of Self-Driving Trucks

197

The Future of Nuclear Host Communities

198

Envisioning a Low Carbon, Lowest Cost Grid

199

The Local View of Fracking

200

Corporations Deepen Clean Energy Commitments

201

Grid Operator PJM Talks Details of Energy Price Formation

202

India's Now or Never Climate Opportunity

203

Distributed Energy's Wholesale Opportunity

204

A City Blazes Its Clean Energy Trail

205

Building Resilient Coastlines

206

The Future of the EPA and Clean Power

207

Where Coal Mining Brings Environmental Benefits

208

The Road Forward for Electric Vehicles

209

Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Environmental Regulation

210

Can Nuclear Bailouts and Electricity Markets Coexist?

211

Climate Change and the Future of Risk

212

The Economics of Climate Change

213

Carbon Capture's Clean Coal Ambition

214

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

215

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

216

The Many Fronts of Trump's Environmental Deregulation Effort

217

Distributed Energy: Utilities' Existential Challenge?

218

Clearing the Air - Carbon Tax or Cap and Trade?

219

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

220

How Alberta Overcame Discord to Enact Carbon Tax

221

Advancing Energy Storage

222

The Airline Industry Eyes its Carbon Footprint

223

The Energy Sector Confronts Cyber Risk

224

Walking the Tightrope: Energy Development and the Environment

225

20 Years of Electricity Restructuring in Pennsylvania