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Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. I've been reporting on and explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about the latest progress in the world's most important fight. (Volts is entirely subscriber-supported. Sign up!) www.volts.wtf
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Episodes (448)
Using a Moneyball approach to elect state & local climate champions
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May 22, 202456:17pending
Making heat pumps better, easier, and a little sexier
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May 17, 20241:05:26pending
Envisioning a more democratic, bottom-up energy system
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May 15, 20241:29:38pending
How climate change is portrayed in popular culture
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May 8, 20241:02:43pending
What you need to know about the new EPA power plant standards
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May 6, 20241:04:32pending
The energy transition's 5 supervillains and 5 superheroes
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May 1, 20241:11:50pending
Making geothermal heat pumps work for big buildings
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Apr 26, 20241:10:18pending
Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.
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Apr 24, 202459:05pending
Why "transferable" tax credits are such a big deal
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Apr 19, 20241:14:46pending
What's going on with China these days?
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Apr 17, 20241:06:24pending
Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it
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Apr 12, 202458:17pending
How much can urban land use policy do for the climate?
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Apr 10, 202455:31pending
How the EPA will spend $27 billion in carbon-reduction funds
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Apr 5, 202458:58pending
Now is the time for distributed energy
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Apr 3, 20241:08:17pending
Biden sets out to supercharge industrial decarbonization
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Mar 27, 20241:14:17pending
What's the deal with these methane satellites?
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Mar 22, 202456:12pending
What's the deal with "scope 3" emissions?
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Mar 20, 202457:30pending
Getting ready for IRA 2
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Mar 15, 20241:08:40pending
How's IRA doing?
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Mar 13, 20241:07:52pending
Industrial policy: what it is, how Biden's doing it, and how it could be done be...
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Mar 8, 20241:14:27pending
The obscure but extremely important battle over building codes
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Mar 6, 20241:03:41pending
So you want to electrify your home
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Feb 28, 202458:59pending
Nuclear? Perhaps!
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Feb 21, 20241:13:43pending
The Democrats' new consensus bill would supercharge transmission
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Feb 14, 20241:01:28pending
The current state of unions in America
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Feb 9, 202457:25pending
Another hot rocks company gets in the storage game
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Feb 7, 202457:48pending
One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lines
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Jan 31, 202456:00pending
Electrifying battery recycling
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Jan 24, 20241:05:38pending
Michigan targets clean electricity and faster permitting
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Jan 19, 202458:38pending
Transitioning off of fossil gas in Australia
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Jan 17, 20241:01:44pending
The Chevron Doctrine: what it is and why it matters that the Supreme Court might...
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Jan 12, 20241:13:39pending
A Connecticut reformer is shaking up utility regulation
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Jan 10, 20241:00:54pending
Decarbonizing a sprawling university system
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Jan 3, 20241:02:43pending
Volts podcast: Will Toor on Colorado's burst of clean energy policy
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Jan 1, 20241:19:13pending
We are closing in on zero-carbon cement
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Dec 27, 20231:08:54pending
Getting better at mining the minerals needed for clean energy
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Dec 20, 202359:30pending
What's going on with offshore wind?
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Dec 13, 20231:16:56pending
Getting local communities on board with renewable energy, Australia edition
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Dec 8, 202342:16pending
The Farm Bill is the most important climate bill this Congress will pass
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Dec 6, 202359:28pending
A note to subscribers on Volts' third anniversary
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Dec 4, 20238:57pending
Checking in on solar power
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Nov 29, 20231:03:53pending
Managing a distributed grid
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Nov 22, 20231:21:11pending
FERC is about to make some very important decisions about transmission
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Nov 17, 20231:10:44pending
An insider's view of the Biden years in clean energy policy
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Nov 15, 20231:14:45pending
The cheapest way to permanently sequester carbon involves ... fizzy water
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Nov 10, 202359:26pending
What rural people actually think about clean energy
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Nov 8, 202354:44pending
The Volts/Catalyst pod crossover you didn't know you were waiting for
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Nov 3, 20231:04:16pending
What? The sun isn't always shining?!
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Nov 1, 20231:34:38pending
What's the deal with district energy?
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Oct 25, 202359:59pending
What's the deal with Iceland?
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Oct 18, 202348:45pending
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