It Was a Big Week for the Power Grid
Transmission has been one of the biggest obstacles of decarbonizing the power grid in America. In the past week, however, the country has taken two big steps toward finally removing it.Last week, the ...
15 Touko 202450min
Elon Musk Is Putting the EV Transition in Peril
Tesla is now facing its worst crisis in years. Last week, CEO Elon Musk laid off the automaker’s roughly 500-person Supercharger team and what remained of its policy and new vehicle teams. Before that...
8 Touko 202450min
The EPA’s Carbon Crackdown Is Finally Here
One of the most important pieces of the Biden administration’s climate policy has arrived: On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules restricting climate pollution from coal-fir...
26 Huhti 202451min
How Jigar Shah Thinks About Risk
Jigar Shah might have more control over America’s new wave of industrial policy — not to mention its climate policy — than anyone not named Joe Biden. And he’s not even a Cabinet-level official. As di...
24 Huhti 202440min
The U.S. Has a Tesla Problem
It isn’t just bad vibes: Electric vehicle sales are slumping in the United States. Fewer than 300,000 EVs were sold nationwide during the first three months of 2024 — although it could be more than 35...
17 Huhti 20241h 2min
Is This a New Era of ‘Climate Capitalism’?
Can capitalism solve climate change? Wrong question, argues the author and journalist Akshat Rathi: In fact, you can’t solve climate change without capitalism. Look around the world, as Rathi does in ...
10 Huhti 20241h 3min
A Skeptic’s Take on AI and Energy Growth
Will the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence break the climate system? In recent months, utilities and tech companies have argued that soaring use of AI will overwhelm electricity mar...
3 Huhti 20241h 3min
Why a Climate Startup Is Building the World’s Biggest Airplane
Radia is a $1 billion climate tech startup with an unusual pitch: It is trying to build the world’s largest airplane. Its proposed aircraft, the Radia Wind Runner, would be as long as a football field...
27 Maalis 202458min
