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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week’s episode features Stephen Robert Miller, who wrote for Yale E360 about an effort to convert existing oil wells for long-duration storage of solar energy.

This Week in Cleantech — May 31, 2024 

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Gregg Patterson, CEO of Origami Solar!

1. The U.S. just took its biggest step yet to end coal mining — The Washington Post
2. Opinion | Can Biden Win America’s Green Tech Trade War With China? — The New York Times
3. How red Texas became a model for green energy — The Financial Times
4. Biden’s Long Game on Climate — Heatmap News
5. Can a California Oilfield Be Retrofitted to Store Solar Energy? — Yale Environment 360

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has unveiled landmark new rules in attempt to jumpstart the beleaguered transmission system in the U.S. Many are already calling it the most impactful action by the agency in decades, providing a path to meet the needs of the energy transition.

Taken together, Orders 1920 and 1977 total more than 1,500 pages, requiring long-term, proactive transmission planning and providing a backstop to some key siting disputes.

But experts say there's still plenty of work ahead, and challenges to the rules are likely.

Episode 77 of the Factor This! podcast features Tory Lauterbach, a partner in the energy and climate practice at Foley Hoag LLP, who breaks down what FERC did, and didn't, do to boost transmission.

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Disclaimer: This interview was recorded on May 14, 2024.  Relative time references like “yesterday” or ”two days ago” refer to the timing on the date of recording. Tory Lauterbach's commentary is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.
 

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week's episode features Oliver Milman, an environment reporter for The Guardian, who covered a new report that casts doubt on sustainable aviation fuel prospects.

This Week in Cleantech — May 17, 2024

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Paul Carp, Independent Climate Consultant for his recently launched Carpe Diem Climate Consulting

1. Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on an array of Chinese imports — Reuters
2. FERC shakes up power industry with landmark grid rule — E&E News
3. What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign — The Washington Post
4. As Ohio clamps down on clean energy, recent changes make it easier to force landowners to allow oil and gas drilling — Energy News Network
5. ‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds — The Guardian

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This Week in Cleantech — May 10, 2024

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Lara Hamsher, Director of Stakeholder Relations, Social Impact and Sustainability for AES Clean Energy!

1. Battery Recycling Shatters the Myth of Electric-Vehicle Waste — Bloomberg
2. Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply — The Guardian
3. A Century-Old Company The Government Owns Wants To Solve A Big Energy Problem — HuffPost
4. Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity — New York Times
5. Biden's tax credits for sustainable aviation fuel allow a big role for corn ethanol — Semafor

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This Week in Cleantech is hosted by Renewable Energy World senior content director John Engel and Tigercomm president Mike Casey. The show is produced by Brian Mendes with research support from Alex Petersen and Clare Quirin.

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week’s episode features Washington Post climate reporter Maxine Joselow, who reported on a new ruling by the EPA to curb power plant emissions.

This Week in Cleantech — May 3, 2024

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Justina Whipkey, the mill supervisor at a JM Steel plant outside Pittsburgh that just tripled capacity to supply trackers to solar projects throughout the region.

1. In America’s Biggest Oil Field, the Ground Is Swelling and Buckling — Wall Street Journal
2. Musk Plans More Layoffs as Two Senior Tesla Executives Depart — The Information
3. Sodium Batteries From Michigan Challenge Lithium’s Grip on Energy Transition — Bloomberg
4. Biden completes permitting rule — Axios
5. New rules will slash air, water and climate pollution from U.S. power plants — Washington Post

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. 

This week’s episode features AP News climate solutions reporter Alexa St. John, who reported on new polling that tests whether or not the Inflation Reduction Act is resonating with voters.

This Week in Cleantech — April 26, 2024

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Antoine Wagschal, Sales Director of Southeast Asia at Nextracker!

1. Why Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth — NPR
2. Biden wants to triple China tariffs on steel, aluminum imports — CNBC
3. U.S. Solar Factories Urge Biden To Crack Down On China — HuffPost
4. Energy-Guzzling AI Is Also the Future of Energy Savings — Wall Street Journal
5. Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden's climate law will help, an AP-NORC poll finds — AP News

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. 

This week’s episode features E&E News reporter Christian Robles who covered the controversial debate over federal green hydrogen incentive rules.

This Week in Cleantech —  April 5, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” goes to Bill Weihl, who is transitioning from ClimateVoice’s Co-Executive Director to the role of Founder & Chief Strategic Advisor.

1. Berkeley Will Repeal Its Landmark Ban on Natural Gas in New Homes — The New York Times
2. BlackRock Issued Legal Warning Over ESG Strategy by Mississippi — Bloomberg
3. Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis? — The New York Times
4. NOAA gets dire warning about solar geoengineering — POLITICO
5. How do you ensure hydrogen is ‘clean’? Treasury rules draw fire. – E&E News

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week's episode features Kelly Livingston of ABC News who covered the EPA's new vehicle standards meant to spur the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles.

This Week in Cleantech  — March 29, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher(s) of the Week” are Michael Tekabe, chief operating officer, and Hayat Bedane, engineering lead at Kubik, an Africa-based startup.

1. Yellen Warns China Against Flood of Cheap Green Energy Exports — The New York Times
2. Oil Executives Are Getting Refreshingly Honest These Days — The New Republic
3. US Announces $6 Billion to Clean Up Heavy Manufacturing — Bloomberg
4. The Last Coal-Fired Power Plants in New England Are to Close — The New York Times
5. New EPA vehicle standards would cut US emissions, ramp up pressure for more EVs — ABC News

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week’s episode features Heatmap's Andrew Moseman who reported on a dilemma facing rooftop solar owners and the beleaguered industry: is it better to save your solar, or sell it?

This Week in Cleantech — March 22 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Sylvia Leyva Martinez, Principal Analyst at Wood Mackenzie!

1. How the World’s Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy — The Wall Street Journal
2. Bill Gates’ TerraPower plans to build first US next-generation nuclear plant — Financial Times
3. The Zombies of the U.S. Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill — New York Times
4. Britain to import energy from US under plan for transatlantic power cable — The Telegraph
5. Is It Better to Save Your Solar, or Sell It? — Heatmap

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week's episode features Syris Valentine, who reported in Grist on private capital that has followed the Inflation Reduction Act. 

This Week in Cleantech — March 15, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Riley Neugebauer!

1. How China Came to Dominate the World in Solar Energy — The New York Times
2. Emissions hit a record high in 2023. Blame hydropower — MIT Tech Review
3. How changes to Hawaiʻi’s home battery program could hinder its clean energy transition — Grist
4. Does Rooftop Solar Actually Help the Climate? — Heatmap’s “Shift Key”
5. The IRA has injected $240 billion into clean energy. The US still needs more. — Grist

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