Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Trump’s Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda
Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has blocked renewable energy development and attacked climate change policy, prioritized fossil fuels and encouraged nuclear energy, and started...
25 Sep 30min
What Does The Nuclear Company Do?
In the past few years, something surprising has happened in American energy policy: States and utilities have started trying to build new nuclear plants.A new kind of company — the nuclear developer —...
23 Sep 53min
Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part
America has some of the world’s best data about its own internal energy, industrial economy, and carbon emissions. That’s thanks to a federal agency called the U.S. Energy Information Administration, ...
16 Sep 35min
Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?
As we catch up from summer vacation, we’re bringing you a favorite from the Shift Key archive. We’ll be back in your feed with more fresh episodes starting next week.What is the difference between ene...
9 Sep 47min
How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout
The United States is staring down a natural gas buildout of gigantic proportions.Amazon wants to build what would be the country’s largest power plant in Texas — and run it entirely on natural gas. No...
2 Sep 50min
Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
Two years ago, Donald Trump made an outlandish campaign promise: He would cut Americans’ power bills in half.It was a ridiculous, impossible pledge — but even so, the affordability problem didn’t need...
27 Aug 1h 3min
Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.
California now has the most expensive electricity in the continental United States. It also has expensive housing … and an increasingly broken home insurance market.Are the three phenomena linked? The...
20 Aug 41min
Why This El Niño Looks Like a Monster
Every few years, the Pacific Ocean’s surface waters become especially warm near the equator, a climatic phenomenon known as El Niño.El Niño is a normal part of the climate system, but even in a normal...
12 Aug 47min
