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Climate News Weekly: SEJ, green banks, solar sheep, and more
April 12, 2024 19:00 - 11 minutes - 8.21 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, James Lawler is joined by Dina Cappiello. They discuss the latest on green banks, the recent turmoil at the SBTI, the power of solar sheep, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Climate News Weekly: Richard Benedick, geoengineering test, and more
April 08, 2024 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, James Lawler sits down with Julio Friedmann and Darren Hau. They discuss the passing of climate leader Richard Benedict, a new geoengineering experiment, new California rules for energy distribution and use, and the emergence of a new biomass startup. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Climate News Weekly: Richard Benedict, geoengineering test, and more
April 08, 2024 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, James Lawler sits down with Julio Friedmann and Darren Hau. They discuss the passing of climate leader Richard Benedict, a new geoengineering experiment, new California rules for energy distribution and use, and the emergence of a new biomass startup. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Climate News Weekly: Coal plants closing, AI for climate, decarbonizing industry, and more
April 01, 2024 18:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, James Lawler and Julio Friedmann discuss coal-fired power plant closures in New England, how the DOE is spending billions to spur innovation in technologies to decarbonize top-emitting industries, the role that AI can play in a variety of climate change fighting efforts, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
How climate changes where people live
March 26, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn the U.S. alone, 162 million people will experience a worse quality of life due to the changing climate within the next 30 years. Rising sea levels stand to displace 13 million Americans in the long run while wildfires and other risks are likely to displace millions more. With 3.2 million American climate migrants to-date, it’s time to start thinking about what our country’s future might look like. Even these statistics may be vast underestimates because nailing down someone’s exact reaso...
Climate News Weekly: Increasing electricity demand, building more battery storage, and more
March 25, 2024 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, James Lawler is joined by Julio Friedmann and Canary Media Reporter Julian Spector. Julio reports on his experience at CERAWeek, and discusses rising energy demand. Julian shares his thoughts on new battery construction projects. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Charging Electric Fleets (3/3)
March 21, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBIn 2023, electric vehicle drivers reported that, when pulling up to one of the more than 140,000 EV public charging stations across the United States, something went wrong about 21% of the time, leaving them unable to charge their vehicles. Such unreliability in charging availability could be crippling to what needs to be rapid growth in the EV market, and produces particular challenges to fleet operators considering EV adoption. They will be dependent on reliable EV charging to ensure their...
Climate News Weekly: SBTI updates, CERAWeek, and more
March 20, 2024 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, James Lawler is joined by GreenBiz Editor at Large Heather Clancy, as well as regular contributors Dina Cappiello and Julio Friedmann. They discuss the latest updates to the Science Based Targets Initiative dashboard and what they really mean for companies' climate goals, what happens at the Aspen Ideas: Climate festival and CERAWeek, as well as the DOE's latest Voluntary Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchasing Challenge, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn,...
Climate News Weekly: MethaneSAT and the SEC Climate Risk Guidelines
March 11, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.33 MBThis week we're joined by Dina Capiello and Julio Friedmann to talk about the latest climate news. The IEA released its global warming emissions report for 2023, and emissions continue to rise, but at a slower rate than in previous years. Meanwhile, to better track those emissions, EDF launched its long-anticipated MethaneSAT on March 4th, a satellite that will measure methane pollution worldwide. And on March 6th the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) released its final rules t...
Charging Electric Fleets (2/3)
February 27, 2024 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBToday, given route lengths and cargo capacity, it is possible to electrify 65% of medium-duty and 49% of heavy-duty trucks. Commercial fleets’ are responding to this promise, with announced commitments to electrification surpassing 140,000 vehicles in 2022 in the United States alone. Still, the number of electric fleet trucks currently on the road in the US is well under 1% of all medium and heavy duty trucks, and companies are facing a dearth of EV charging infrastructure to support the exp...
Climate News Weekly: Natural gas prices, EV leasing, and more
February 26, 2024 18:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this week's episode of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler, Julio Friedmann, and Darren Hau discuss falling natural gas prices and the impact of that on the energy transition, how leasing companies are responding to the EV industry, the need for more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Charging Electric Fleets (1/3)
February 20, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn the United States, nearly one quarter of national greenhouse gas emissions come from the 280 million vehicles that drive on the nations roads each year. And while fleet vehicles – including the ~5 million buses, garbage trucks, law enforcement vehicles and more that make up public fleets, and the ~6.5 million rental cars, taxis, delivery trucks, long-haul trucks, and more that make up commercial fleets – represent only a small fraction of those vehicles, they are an excellent target for e...
Climate News Weekly: IEA's birthday, Siemens transformers, and more
February 20, 2024 03:00 - 15 minutes - 10.3 MBOn today's episode of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler and Julio Friedmann discuss the IEA's 50th anniversary, Siemens' plans to open a US-based transformer plant, Ireland's energy woes, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Living outside our comfort zone
February 13, 2024 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBIn the late 1970’s, English chemist Dr. James Lovelock and American biologist Dr. Lynn Margulis published a research paper hypothesizing that living organisms – without intention or agency – could have a regulatory effect on their environment that helped ensure their continued habitability. While the Gaia hypothesis they originated has remained controversial for the last four decades, it has provided a provocative explanation for why the Earth remained more or less clement over its ~4 billio...
Climate News Weekly: California flooding, heat pumps in the news, and more
February 13, 2024 02:00 - 13 minutes - 9.62 MBIn this episode of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler sits down with Julio Friedmann and Darren Hau to discuss potential responses to California's most recent torrential rains, how both California and the UK are responding to heat pumps, the EU's new emission targets and plan, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
The emerging market that is unlocking renewable projects
January 30, 2024 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBPassage of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022 was a game changer in the United States’ effort to address climate change. The hundreds of billions of dollars the IRA has made available for clean energy and climate mitigation projects will likely double the pace of U.S. decarbonization. While this rapid expansion in clean energy development is tied to the sheer scale of the IRA (it is the largest climate spending bill ever passed), how climate spending from this bill is taking plac...
Climate News Weekly: Delayed approval on LNG terminal, Europe's energy choices, extra wind power, and more
January 29, 2024 22:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBOn this week's episode of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler and Julio Friedmann discuss the consequences of the Biden administration's decision to delay the approval of a LNG export plant in Louisiana, some European countries' plans to transition away from coal, what happens when storms super charge windmills, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Climate News Weekly: EVs face the cold, British carbon capture, Hawaii's new virtual power plant, and more
January 23, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBThis week on Climate News Weekly, host James Lawler is joined by Julio Friedmann, Darren Hau, and Canary Media Reporter Julian Spector. They discuss the various issues facing EV users and owners during the US' recent cold snap, new developments in British carbon capture projects, concerns that recent US electricity demand will strain the grid, and the latest developments in Hawaii's newest virtual power plant. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at contact@...
Virtual power plants and next-gen batteries
January 16, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBSince 2019, the cost of wind and solar electricity production has been lower than that from fossil fuels, and costs are projected to continue falling well into the next decade. But for renewable energy to truly dominate the electricity market, it needs to be cheap and reliable, even when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. That means the battery market needs to grow, too. So far, short-duration lithium batteries have dominated the market of grid-scale battery storage, but a ...
Climate News Weekly: Auxin solar case continues, emissions went down, climate senate race in Utah, and more!
January 15, 2024 14:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBJulio Friedmann, Dina Cappiello, Darren Hau and Eric Wesoff join James Lawler to discuss this week's climate news. Why is the Auxin solar tariff case still a thing? How did we manage to reduce global emissions while increasing GDP last year? China works to establish a vehicle-to-grid (VTG) case study. Meanwhile, more of Biden's 2020 voters now list climate change as their top priority. What does this mean for the 2024 election? Nathaniel Stinnett also joins Climate Now again to explain s...
Climate News Weekly: Green hydrogen tax credit rules, Chinese EVs dominate, Louisiana LNG exports, and more
January 09, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this week’s episode of Climate News Weekly, Julio Friedmann, Dina Cappiello, and Darren Hau join James Lawler to discuss the US Treasury’s new guidance for what can qualify for a "green hydrogen" tax credit, Tesla no longer being the world's largest EV manufacturer, the EPA granting Louisiana the right to manage applications for deep geologic storage of CO2, and an update on a proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project in the Gulf Coast. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Insta...
(3/3) The Voluntary Carbon Offset Market
January 01, 2024 19:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIn January of 2023, a headline from Boston Consulting Group read: The voluntary carbon market [VCM] is thriving. Their evidence? A 4-fold increase in the value of the market in the course of a year, to a valuation over $2 billion USD and growing. Nine months later, Reuters headlined a very different take: Carbon credit market confidence ebbs as big names retreat, citing the first dip in the number of credits used by companies in at least 7 years. What was causing such rapid growth in the VCM...
(2/3) The Voluntary Carbon Offset Market
December 25, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBJoin us for the second of our three-part series on voluntary carbon offset markets, where we take a look at three companies that have very different strategies for removing carbon from the atmosphere. Vesta aims to increase the amount of atmospheric carbon that the ocean can absorb by infusing coastal systems with sand composed of naturally reactive minerals like olivine. Mast Reforestation generates carbon offsets by maintaining and protecting forests in wildfire-prone areas. And Climeworks...
(1/3) The Voluntary Carbon Offset Market
December 19, 2023 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThe voluntary carbon offset market (VCM) – in which customers can pay for third-parties to avoid emitting CO2 or remove it from the atmosphere on their behalf – has existed for over 30 years, and has been controversial for nearly as long. On the one hand, the VCM can provide a path for hard-to-decarbonize sectors or businesses to reach net-zero emissions goals, and it can help finance development of important carbon removal technologies, like direct air capture. On the other hand, the market...
Climate News Weekly: Top Stories of 2023, including COP28 deal, methane tracking, climate risks, and more
December 18, 2023 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.3 MBFor our last episode of Climate News Weekly this year, we're reviewing the top climate space stories of 2023 according to our series regulars Julio Friedmann, Dina Cappiello, and Darren Hau. Climate Now Host James Lawler and Managing Producer Emma Crow-Willard moderate a conversation spanning the latest COP28 deal, new developments in methane regulation and tracking, the climate crises that struck the world, EV growth, and more. Thank you for joining us, and see you next year! Follow us on ...
Roads to CO2 Removal
December 11, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBHow much CO2 is it possible to remove in the United States and at what cost? Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and researchers from more than a dozen institutions have completed a first-of-its-kind national assessment of carbon dioxide removal options, ranging from the role of cropland soils, carbon capture, CO2 transport, and more. In today’s episode, Climate Now interviewed several of the report’s authors to provide an overview of the negative emissions pathways—ones that p...
Climate News Weekly: COP28 coverage, including global health, carbon capture, and "phase out vs phase down"
December 11, 2023 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBToday in Climate News Weekly, we continue our coverage of COP28 with three people who each covered a different aspect of the conference. First, we speak with Julian Moore of Climatebase to discuss this COP's focus on how climate change impacts global health, while Julio Friedmann, regular contributor, sent us an updated on-the-ground recording of this experiences in Dubai. Finally, we invited Dina Cappiello to sit down with us after her return from the conference to give us her post-COP28 re...
Climate News Weekly: Roads to Removal Report preview and live from COP28
December 04, 2023 23:00 - 12 minutes - 8.74 MBOn this week's episode of Climate News Weekly, host James Lawler sits down with Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, to discuss an upcoming report on carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, titled "Roads to Removal: Options for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the United States." Additionally, two of our regular Climate News contributors, Dina Cappiello and Julio Friedmann, share their impressions, thoughts, and reactions to COP28, which is taking place in Dub...
When insurers can no longer afford the risk
November 28, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn 2023, two major insurers joined a growing list of companies that will no longer offer new home insurance policies in California. In Florida, the situation is worse, with more than a dozen large home insurance companies retreating from the state. Both states have seen devastating property losses due to extreme forest fires and hurricanes - risks that are only increasing due to the changing climate. But why can’t the insurance companies simply adjust premiums to reflect the changing risk t...
Climate News Weekly: US-China Climate Statement, More Lithium, Fifth National Climate Assessment, Taylor Swift, and more
November 20, 2023 22:00 - 10 minutes - 7.22 MBOn this week's episode of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler is joined by Julio Friedmann and Darren Hau as they discuss the latest US-China climate statement ahead of COP28, new developments in the EV space, the US's Fifth National Climate Assessment, the impact of climate change on Taylor Swift concerts, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Climate News Weekly: 2023 Elections Recap, EV adoptions, new DAC facility breaks ground, and more
November 13, 2023 08:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBIn this week's episode of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler and Ben Hone, Climate Now's Marketing Manager sit down with Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, to go over last week's US elections and what they mean for climate action. Then, James is joined by Julio Friedmann and Darren Hau to discuss the past week's top climate headlines. They discuss the reality behind headlines claiming that EV adoption is slowing down, a lawsuit against Califor...
Climate Now Debates: Solar Radiation Management (SRM)
November 07, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MB“Geoengineering” refers to the intentional intervention in Earth processes for the purpose of mitigating climate change. A controversial topic, geoengineering is typically divided into two categories: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. This second category, also known as SRM, made headlines this summer when the White House released a report that “opened the door” to future research on the topic. In principle, SRM includes any technology that could be used to reflect som...
Climate News Weekly: Remembering Saleemul Huq, Panama Canal Troubles, US Offshore Wind Power Saga Continues
November 06, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.39 MBOn today’s Climate News Weekly episode, James Lawler is joined by Julio Friedmann. They pay tribute to Saleemul Huq, leading climate action advocate from Bangladesh who passed away on October 28, discuss issues facing the Panama Canal and how they impacts global trade, and have a conversation about two offshore wind stories: Ørsted's announcement that it is abandoning its New Jersey project and the Biden administration approval of the largest offshore wind project off the coast of Virginia. ...
Climate News Weekly: Chevron acquires Hess, what happens to captured CO2 today, Hurricane Otis, and more
October 30, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.84 MBOn today’s Climate News Weekly episode, James Lawler is joined by Dina Cappiello to discuss Chevron's latest acquisition of Hess, what really happens when CO2 is captured in the US, the severe impacts of Hurricane Otis and what they mean, and more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Pope Francis’ Laudate Deum: uniting faith and science in a call to climate action
October 24, 2023 03:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBIn 2015, Pope Francis - head of the Catholic Church - published Laudato Si: On Care For Our Common Home, a “papal cyclical,” or open letter, to the world’s more than 1.3 billion Catholics about the ethical imperative of addressing climate change, and the relationship between environmental stewardship and social justice. The publication had an impact: in church-goers’ confidence in the scientific evidence for climate change, in country leaders who cited it in the COP21 negotiations that led ...
Climate News Weekly: Grid Upgrades, Species Extinction, New European Reporting Rules, and more
October 23, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes - 7.86 MBOn today’s Climate News Weekly episode, James Lawler, Julio Friedmann, and Dina Cappiello discuss the need to invest in our grids to ensure a reliable energy transition, in the US and abroad, the sobering reality that climate change is speeding up species' extinctions, and how new European climate reporting rules for companies will impact future decision-making. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our ...
Climate News Weekly: Tesla Price Drop, Exxon Buys Pioneer, New Hydrogen Hubs, and more
October 16, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes - 9.22 MBOn today’s Climate News Weekly episode, James Lawler, Julio Friedmann, and Dina Cappiello discuss Tesla's new prices for their electric vehicles, Exxon's massive purchase of rival Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion, the announcement of 7 new hydrogen hubs by the White House, and the latest on the EU's progress towards their climate goals. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and source...
Energy Superhighways: Bridging the Gap for Clean Energy
October 10, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBThe US's energy system is at a crossroads. As more and more renewable energy projects come online and demand for electricity keeps rising, many utilities and developers are being asked to build more transmission infrastructure to bring all this power to consumers. In this episode, we explore the challenges faced in developing new long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines, and the importance of transmission expansion in connecting renewable energy resources to the grid and achieving na...
Climate News Weekly: Paying Firefighters, Oil Conference, Pope's Message on Climate Action, and more
October 09, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes - 7.91 MBOn today’s Climate News Weekly episode, James Lawler and Julio Friedmann discuss how a US government shut down could impact firefighter pay, the oil and gas industry Adipec conference and what it means ahead of COP28, the latest EV sale numbers, and how Pope Francis' new letter, "Laudate Deum," relates to climate action. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.
Climate News Weekly: Climate Week NYC recap, IEA's new 1.5°C scenario, new geothermal plant, and more
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBOn today’s Climate News Weekly episode, Dina Cappiello recaps her Climate Week NYC experience. We discuss the International Energy Agency’s updated 1.5°C scenario, including an in-depth explanation of what a “scenario” is, China’s strong stance against phasing out fossil fuels, and the potential promises of Fervo Energy’s newest geothermal plant breaking ground. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website for all of our c...
Two views on the future of the US electricity grid
September 26, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThe United States’ aging electricity grid is a problem. Over 70% of the major transmission networks – which transfer electricity from power generation centers to endpoint users in homes and buildings, sometimes in other states – are at least 25 years old, and much of the grid was built in the 1960s and 1970s. As the number of renewable energy projects being built to meet clean energy goals increases, the problem of how to connect them to the grid is only growing larger, as transmission infra...
Climate News Weekly: Decarbonizing Heavy Industry, Europe's Deadly Air Quality, Insurance at Risk, and more
September 25, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes - 8.52 MBFrom a new White House climate jobs training program that echoes the Civilian Conservation Corp of the FDR era, to UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rolling back carbon reduction targets, global leaders are taking a stance after the UN’s Climate Week in New York. Also, big industry is grappling with finding low-carbon business models that can outlive government subsidies, a close examination of climate risk is imperiling the US home insurance market, and the EU gets a dose of reality about the...
Climate News Weekly: Apple's Green Ad, Peak Fossil Fuels, G20, and more
September 18, 2023 07:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBThis has been a big week for nations and companies ‘talking the talk’ about reducing their emissions footprints, from updated commitments at the G20 summit, to a carbon-neutral product launch by Apple, and the family that owns the Mærsk shipping company creating its own clean shipping fuel supply chain with a green methanol subsidiary company. But which of these groups are also ‘walking the walk’ and making real strides in accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels? Climate News We...
The IRA Progress Report
September 11, 2023 18:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBWhen the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law in August 2022, policy analysts predicted that the incentives it provided for renewable energy deployment, home electrification and EV adoption would put the U.S. on track to reach at least two thirds of its 2030 emissions reduction target. Twelve months later, we can now start to track how well the nation is progressing towards those predictions. In terms of unlocking private capital and kickstarting new clean energy projects, the I...
This Week in Climate News
September 04, 2023 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBThis past week the climate has been busy inundating every aspect of life: Hurricane Idalia caused damages across Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, fueled by increased ocean temperatures. Meanwhile insurance companies are leaving, yet Florida's governor refuses to take money from the Inflation Reduction Act to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state. In Ecuador, the Yasuní Referendum was passed, banning more exploration and drilling of oil in the biodiverse Yasuní National Park. ...
Climate News Weekly
September 04, 2023 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBThis past week the climate has been busy inundating every aspect of life: Hurricane Idalia caused damages across Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, fueled by increased ocean temperatures. Meanwhile insurance companies are leaving, yet Florida's governor refuses to take money from the Inflation Reduction Act to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state. In Ecuador, the Yasuní Referendum was passed, banning more exploration and drilling of oil in the biodiverse Yasuní National Park. ...
Made in America: The next generation of solar
August 28, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBYou may recall an Auxin Solar tariff case in which a small domestic solar PV manufacturer, Auxin Solar, alleged that solar cells produced in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam were circumventing U.S. trade duties against China. On August 18th, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued their final ruling in the case, determining that solar cells from those countries were in fact circumventing U.S. trade duties. Companies will now be required to self-certify that they are not circumventing...
Building Solar Neighborhoods
August 21, 2023 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBThere are over 8 billion square meters of rooftops in the US that are viable for solar energy generation, and could produce as much as 40% of national energy needs. And yet, only 8% of US households have installed rooftop solar panels. With so much available space, and with the average cost of energy from solar much lower than the cost of energy from the grid, why aren't more homeowners installing solar? Climate Now sat down with Solar United Neighbors Executive Director Anya Schoolman to ...
Climate Now Debates: Carbon Capture and Storage
August 14, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBOne of the most controversial parts of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act - the most ambitious climate spending bill in history - was the large pot of federal dollars that could now subsidize the nascent Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) industry. The bill provides for the expansion of the 45Q tax credit, which now allocates up to $85 per metric ton of CO2 that is captured from a point source of emissions like power plants or factories, and then is injected deep underground for permanent storag...
Revolutionizing ammonia production
August 07, 2023 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThe Nobel-prize winning discovery of how to create synthetic ammonia has been called the “most momentous technical advance in history,” and for good reason. Today about half of the food consumed worldwide comes from the increased harvest yields resulting from ammonia-based fertilizers. We could not sustain the global population without it. While ammonia production is critical to modern day global food security, and will need to increase to support a growing population, it is also extremely ...