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The Weird State-Level Races That Matter for Climate Change
October 21, 2026 · 43 minEvery midterm, the focus is on Congress — and for good reason. But in two weeks, Americans will vote on a number of state races that will matter immensely to the energy system, the power grid, and the future direction of greenhouse gas…
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Should Climate Activists Keep Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure?
October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minNo researcher has been more cited in lawsuits against fossil fuel infrastructure than Peter Erickson. As an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Peter studies how pipelines and other oil and gas supply expansions…
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The Tesla Alum Trying to Turn GM Into an American Battery Juggernaut
October 7, 2026 · 51 minThere are two big trends in the American battery sector at the moment. The first is that the electric vehicle market is deteriorating. GM, for instance, sold just 25,000 EVs in the third quarter of this year. Ford sold 6,000 EVs. Even the…
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Governor Mikie Sherrill on Electricity Prices, Nuclear Power, and Building in New Jersey
October 2, 2026 · 22 minGovernor Mikie Sherrill is a former Navy pilot, federal prosecutor, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was elected New Jersey's governor in November 2025 in a campaign dominated by the state’s surging electricity…
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Al Gore on AI, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and the Biggest Surprises of the Past 20 Years
September 30, 2026 · 30 minFormer Vice President Al Gore needs no introduction. He is, in a way, the original climate influencer. His film An Inconvenient Truth gave rise to a new wave of climate activism in the 2000s. It was one of the highest-grossing…
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Trump’s Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda
September 25, 2026 · 31 minSince taking office last year, the Trump administration has blocked renewable energy development and attacked climate change policy, prioritized fossil fuels and encouraged nuclear energy, and started a war that led to a global oil and gas…
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What Does The Nuclear Company Do?
September 23, 2026 · 54 minIn the past few years, something surprising has happened in American energy policy: States and utilities have started trying to build new nuclear plants. A new kind of company — the nuclear developer — is now trying to handle those…
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Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part
September 16, 2026 · 35 minAmerica has some of the world’s best data about its own internal energy, industrial economy, and carbon emissions. That’s thanks to a federal agency called the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which painstakingly collects and…
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Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?
September 9, 2026 · 48 minAs we catch up from summer vacation, we’re bringing you a favorite from the Shift Key archive. We’ll be back in your feed with more fresh episodes starting next week. What is the difference between energy and power? How does the power grid…
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How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout
September 2, 2026 · 51 minThe United States is staring down a natural gas buildout of gigantic proportions. Amazon wants to build what would be the country’s largest power plant in Texas — and run it entirely on natural gas. Not to be outdone, OpenAI is plotting an…
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Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minTwo years ago, Donald Trump made an outlandish campaign promise: He would cut Americans’ power bills in half. It was a ridiculous, impossible pledge — but even so, the affordability problem didn’t need to get this bad. A new report, out…
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Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.
August 20, 2026 · 42 minCalifornia now has the most expensive electricity in the continental United States. It also has expensive housing … and an increasingly broken home insurance market. Are the three phenomena linked? They might be. Due to a peculiarity in…

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