Politics

A key Arizona race will test clean energy's electoral power

Charlie Fisher and Ning Mosberger-Tang on scaling up the grassroots playbook to flip Arizona's powerful utility regulator.

1 hr ago • David Roberts

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Can the UK stay the course with its climate plans?

UK Climate Minister Katie White on navigating the decarbonization challenge amidst rising energy prices and political headwinds.

Jun 17 • David Roberts

1:00:05

Giving clean electricity a political voice of its own

Investor Steve McBee discusses a new effort to give the clean electrification sector more political muscle & swagger.

May 29 • David Roberts

1:39:38

A limited defense of Biden's everything-bagel industrial policy

A conversation with Betony Jones.

May 27 • David Roberts

1:06:29

Tom Steyer wants to be California's climate governor

Tom Steyer joins me to explain his plan to slash California’s exorbitant electricity bills by taking on monopoly utilities.

Apr 27 • David Roberts

54:51

Life as a clean energy journalist in an age of madness

Robinson Meyer and I discuss why the traditional climate movement struggles to build infrastructure and how a global oil shock is scrambling US energy…

Apr 20 • David Roberts

1:31:56

Climate finance, interrupted

Beth Bafford on Climate United, the green fund she designed & ran before Trump killed it -- and the legal fight to revive it.

Apr 17 • David Roberts

59:34

Doing data centers the not-dumb way

Jigar Shah joins me to break down why powering new data centers with behind-the-meter natural gas plants is an engineering and economic disaster.

Apr 15 • David Roberts

1:30:57

Rethinking climate regulation from the ground up

I chat with Hannah Safford and Loren Schulman about designing federal policy that actually delivers decarbonization.

Apr 3 • David Roberts

1:20:49

The high-stakes battle over energy affordability in New York

Pete Sikora and I puzzle over why New York's governor is fighting with her party again.

Mar 20 • David Roberts

1:02:07

What is PJM and why is everyone so mad about it?

Clara Summers & I discuss rising prices & growing political discontent in PJM, the country's largest power market.

Feb 20 • David Roberts

1:15:28

So, how's the climate doing?

Dr. Sarah Kapnick on the "fuzzy crystal ball" of modern climate science and the reality of a hotter world.

Feb 6 • David Roberts

1:04:51