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Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) — 222 episodes

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Policies and Financing Solutions to Modernize U.S. Water Infrastructure

2

Tracking Down Data

3

Strategies to Lower Utility Bills Now for Households and Small Businesses

4

Igniting Innovation: Progress and a Path Forward for Wildfire Policy

5

Understanding Load Growth and Energy Affordability

6

Rapid Readout: Frozen Infrastructure Winter Storm Impacts on Communities and the Power Grid

7

Powering the Economy: Generation Innovation, Grid Optimization, and Energy Efficiency

8

Where Key Clean Energy Tax Credits Stand

9

Rapid Readout: What Congress Needs to Know About COP30: Outcomes and What’s Next

10

International Trade and Climate Policy

11

Keeping it Cool: International Efforts to Reduce Emissions from Refrigerants

12

What’s on the Table for the Negotiations | What Congress Needs to Know About COP30

13

Rapid Readout: The Future of FEMA

14

How Can We Cut Industrial Emissions?

15

Powering Up: Improving Energy Grid Reliability and Resilience to Lower Energy Bills

16

Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Energy and the Environment

17

The Ohio River

18

Beating the Heat: A 2025 Heat Policy Agenda

19

Shifting Gears: Policies for a More Sustainable Highway System

20

Like Trains? Then Choo-Choose to Learn About Federal Rail Policy

21

Rapid Readout: The Latest on Budget Reconciliation

22

Rapid Readout: Benefits of ENERGY STAR

23

Risky Business: Insurance in the Era of Climate Change

24

Towards Healthier Outcomes in Surface Transportation

25

2025 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

26

The Process and Path Forward for a Bipartisan Surface Transportation Bill

27

The Colorado River

28

Clean Manufacturing in America

29

Understanding the Budget, Reconciliation, and Appropriations

30

Navigating Climate Information for Effective Policy-Making

31

The Columbia River

32

The Tennessee River | Resilient and Healthy River Communities Series

33

U.S.-China Engagement and International Climate Diplomacy

34

Methane Mitigation on the Global Stage

35

What’s on the Table for the Negotiations

36

The Mississippi River

37

Funding Opportunities for Nonprofits, Municipalities, and Communities

38

Exploring the Policy Landscape of Carbon Dioxide Removal

39

Maximizing the Impact of Natural Climate Solutions

40

Cities Leading the Way on Nature-Based Solutions

41

Dams in Every District: Challenges, Opportunities, and What’s Ahead

42

Demystifying Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal

43

The National Security – Climate Adaptation Nexus

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Understanding the Budget and Appropriations Process

47

Innovations in Weather Forecasting for a Changing Climate

48

Energy Earthshots: The Frontier of Climate Innovation

49

Unpacking the Fifth National Climate Assessment

50

The First Global Stocktake

51

What’s on the Table for the Negotiations?

52

Congress and International Climate Finance

53

The Latest on the Clean Energy Tax Incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act

54

Climate-Smart Research for the Farms of the Future

55

Conservation Practices from Farms to Forests and Wetlands

56

The Future of Forestry in the Farm Bill

57

Maximizing the Climate Benefits of Hydrogen

58

Unlocking Rural Economies: Farm Bill Investments in Rural America

59

Climate, Energy, and Economic Win-Wins in the Farm Bill

60

The Process and Path Forward for Passing a Bipartisan Farm Bill

61

The State of Play for Nuclear Energy in the United States

62

Investments in Clean Energy and Transportation Innovations in the Federal and Private Sectors

63

Grow Organic

64

2023 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

65

Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

66

Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases

67

Public Polling on Climate Change

68

Budget and Appropriations

69

Climate Summit Recap: Key Outcomes and What Comes Next

70

What’s on the Table for the Negotiations?

71

Natural Climate Solutions

72

Climate Change Loss and Damage

73

Key Findings from the Newest Global Assessment Report on Climate Change

74

Back to School

75

What Congress Needs to Know About Corporate Climate Risk, Resilience, and Disclosures

76

Living with Climate Change: Integrating Equity into Emergency Management

77

How Start-Up Accelerators Can Drive Climate Action

78

Offshore Wind Energy

79

Living with Climate Change: Extreme Heat

80

Pathways to Regenerative Agriculture

81

Living with Climate Change: Wildfires

82

Building Out Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

83

Direct Air Capture

84

Living with Climate Change: Sea Level Rise

85

Green Hydrogen

86

Living with Climate Change: The Polar Vortex

87

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88

Building a Durable National Framework for Large Landscape Conservation

89

Climate Adaptation Programs across Agencies

90

2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

91

Energy Efficiency Means Business 2022

92

Financing Inclusive Clean Energy Investments in Rural America

93

Innovation as Climate Action: Advances in Weather Forecasting

94

Reducing Emissions by Reducing Food Waste

95

The Climate Consequences of Plastics

96

Building Materials: From Production to Reuse

97

Recap of COP26: Key Outcomes and What Comes Next

98

The Negotiations: What’s on the Table

99

The Role of International Climate Finance

100

Momentum on Climate Adaptation

101

Creating Policies, Coalitions, and Actions for Global Sustainable Development

102

The Growing Climate Workforce:

103

2021 Congressional Clean Energy EXPO and Policy Forum

104

Leveraging Grid Edge Integration for Resilience & Decarbonization

105

Modernizing America’s Transmission Network

106

Unlocking Capital For Climate Solutions

107

Towards the Energy System of Tomorrow

108

Congressional Climate Camp #5: Bonus Session: Understanding Budget Reconciliation

109

Ambition and Opportunity in America’s New Climate Commitments

110

Natural Climate Solutions: A Win-Win Solution for Our Environment and Our Economy

111

Congressional Climate Camp #4: Federal Policies for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Win-Wins

112

Rethinking Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Policies and Programs to Address Waste

113

Climate Adaptation and Resilience: The Road to COP26

114

Protecting Vulnerable Communities from Climate Impacts

115

Toward an Evidence-Based Nuclear Energy Policy

116

Congressional Climate Camp #3: Lessons Learned from Past Congresses and Current Attitudes on Climate

117

2021 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

118

Energy Efficiency Means Business 2021

119

Congressional Climate Camp #2: Federal Policies for High Emitting Sectors

120

Relief and Housing Assistance for COVID-Impacted Communities

121

Congressional Climate Camp #1: Budget, Appropriations, and Stimulus

122

2020 Climate Action Update

123

The State of Play for Public Transit

124

After COVID: A Lower Carbon Future for Commercial Aviation

125

Ports Leading the Way on Mitigation and Resilience

126

What Congress Needs to Know About Pending Nuclear Waste Legislation

127

Federal Action for Resilient Coasts

128

Low-Carbon Small Business and Post-COVID Recovery

129

Growing Green Industry and Innovation: Mass Timber

130

Energy Transitions in Coal Country

131

A New Spin on Conservation Corps

132

Preparing High Schoolers for Green Careers

133

The Climate Crisis Report in Focus

134

Rural Communities Rise to the Challenge of Dual Disasters

135

The Bioeconomy’s Role in COVID-19 Recovery and Climate Solutions

136

Implementing Energy Efficiency Programs in Rural America

137

Sustainable, Democratic Energy and Public Health

138

Resilient Housing and Communities

139

Federal Support and Local Action

140

Coastal Resilience in Alaska

141

Weather and Social Data to Inform Participatory Planning Initiatives

142

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Decision-Making

143

Cultural Heritage and Climate Change

144

Assessing National Park Asset Flood Risk: Retreat, Adapt, Fortify?

145

Localizing Sea Level Rise Projections for Decision-Makers

146

Financing Climate Mitigation and Resilience: Lessons from Hawaii

147

Coastal Resilience in the Southeast

148

A Security Threat Assessment of Global Climate Change

149

2020 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

150

Coastal Resilience in the Great Lakes Region

151

Resilience along the West Coast

152

Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States

153

The Growing Role of Renewable Energy in the U.S. Energy Mix

154

Community-Centered Resilience: Lessons from Louisiana

155

Delay and Pay or Plan and Prosper

156

Improving Coastal Resilience in the Northeast

157

Climate and National Security Forum 2019

158

How Do Communities Ensure Federal Energy Programs Help Those Most in Need?

159

Energy Efficiency Jobs Are Green Jobs

160

Equitable Solutions to Rural Energy Burdens

161

Nature-based Resilience for Gulf Coast Communities

162

Biogas: Pro-Economy and Pro-Climate

163

Decommissioning: A New Era in the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry; a Critical Need for Congressional Oversight

164

The National Flood Insurance Program: Critical Issues and Needed Reforms

165

What Can Congress Do to Build Better Buildings?

166

Hydropower – A New Look at Opportunities for America’s First Renewable Energy Resource

167

2019 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

168

Climate Change in the American Mind

169

Electrification

170

Green Infrastructure: A Blueprint for Climate Resilient Communities

171

Making Military Bases and Their Communities More Resilient

172

How Climate Change Affects the United States

173

The Multiple Benefits of Federal Housing and Energy Programs

174

Reframing Energy for the 21st Century

175

Energy Efficiency: America’s Job-Creation Powerhouse

176

Wood: The Building Material of the Future?

177

How Businesses, Cities, and States Are Leading Climate Action Efforts

178

Federal Programs for Energy and Housing

179

Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants

180

The State of Germany’s Energy Transition

181

Biogas as a Waste Management Solution

182

Growing Jobs and Rural Economies: The Farm Bill’s Energy Title

183

Hidden in Plain Sight? Why Resilient Buildings Are Critical U.S. Infrastructure

184

Warning Signs: New Report Outlines the Impacts of Proposed Budget Cuts to Climate and Environmental Research

185

2018 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

186

Building Climate Resilience in the Real Estate Sector

187

Lessons in Resilience from America’s Coastal Communities

188

Transmission Benefits for Consumers and the Economy

189

What Came Out of the Latest Global Climate Talks?

190

Can Fuel Efficiency Standards Be Met Cost-Effectively?

191

How Can Cities Become More Resilient to Extreme Weather?

192

Protecting America’s Water Amid Growing Threats

193

The National Security Implications of Climate Change

194

Powering Businesses, Homes and Vehicles with Waste

195

Energy Emergency Preparedness: A Critical Federal-State-Private Sector Partnership

196

Investing in U.S. Infrastructure for Maximum Dividends

197

How Foreign Climate Aid Benefits the United States

198

The Economic Returns of a National Transportation Infrastructure Initiative

199

Can the United States Achieve a Low Carbon Economy by 2050?

200

Electric Transmission Infrastructure 101

201

2017 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook

202

Update from the Marrakech Climate Change Summit

203

District Energy, CHP, Microgrids: Resilient, Efficient Energy Infrastructure

204

What Environmental Action Is China Taking After Paris?

205

Public Attitudes about Climate Change and Clean Energy

206

Building a Billion-Ton Bioeconomy

207

Mapping Environmental Justice: How Can You Use EPA’s EJSCREEN Tool?

208

The Changing U.S. Energy Landscape

209

Solar Power and Resilient Design for Schools and Shelters

210

Sustainable Affordable Housing: Saving Energy, Saving Lives

211

Geothermal Energy: Heating Up

212

Advancing Mobility Sustainably: Ridesourcing and Public Transport Together

213

The 2017 Budget: Impacts on Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

214

Environmental Justice in the Clean Power Plan

215

What’s in the Paris Climate Deal?

216

Protecting Public Health Through Cleaner Fuels and Lower Emissions

217

How Can New Transatlantic Collaboration Overcome Barriers to Renewable Energy Goals?

218

Farming & Water Quality: Conservation Policies Working to Reduce Nutrient Loss

219

The PREPARE Act for Extreme Weather: Saving Lives and Taxpayer Money

220

How Are States Planning to Comply With the Clean Power Plan?

221

Offshore Wind: Can the U.S. Catch Up with Europe?

222

Innovative Clean Energy Strategies of Rural Electric Cooperatives