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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week’s episode, recorded at RE+ in Las Vegas, features special guest Jake Spring from The Washington Post, who wrote about the Trump administration's plans to cancel permits for a wind project off the coast of Massachusetts that would initially power about 400,000 homes.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Nantu Canelos, executive director of The Kara Solar Foundation. The foundation, led by Indigenous engineers and community leaders, has delivered 12 solar-powered canoes to villages in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname and the Solomon Islands. In many communities, rivers are the only roads and solar boats spare them the cost of fuel while reducing pollution. 

This Week in Cleantech — September 12, 2025

1. Big Solar Developers Sees Delays in US Project Approvals — Bloomberg
2. Why nuclear is now a booming industry — The Economist
3. Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off. — The Wall Street Journal
4. Exclusive: US warns hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructure — Reuters
5. Trump’s war on wind just got much bigger — The Washington Post

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