Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
Two 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...
27 Aug 1h 3min
Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.
California 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? The...
20 Aug 41min
Why This El Niño Looks Like a Monster
Every few years, the Pacific Ocean’s surface waters become especially warm near the equator, a climatic phenomenon known as El Niño.El Niño is a normal part of the climate system, but even in a normal...
12 Aug 47min
The Big — But Fixable! — Problems in America’s R&D Ecosystem
At this point, when you hear “venture capitalist,” you probably think of … software. Or artificial intelligence. Or cryptocurrency.The Engine Ventures, which spun out of MIT a few years ago, is differ...
6 Aug 57min
Permitting Reform, Data Centers, and More With Senator Heinrich and Secretary Granholm
The Democratic Party’s climate and energy policy is at a difficult moment. Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration has attacked solar and wind energy, started an inflationary war, and ...
3 Aug 33min
What a Permitting Reform Deal Could Look Like
There’s really one one good thing that could happen this year in Congress for clean energy: permitting reform. If lawmakers reached a bipartisan deal on the country’s permitting system, they could mak...
29 Jul 1h 18min
What Barbecue Sauce Has in Common With Carbon Removal
Charm Industrial is a climate tech company that takes biomass and converts it into a heavy, carbon-rich oil that can be injected underground, transmuting and storing the greenhouse gas far from the at...
24 Jul 1h 3min
The Company That’s Raised $60 Million to Geoengineer the Planet
For more than 30 years, a heterodox group of scientists have proposed injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight away from Earth, thereby cooling the atmosphere and reversing...
15 Jul 1h 1min
