Biden Works to Reverse Trump’s Climate Destruction

This week on The Energy Gang: What to make of Biden’s historic, sweeping actions on climate and clean energy?

It was hard to keep up with the destruction wrought during the Trump era. And it’s already getting hard to keep up with the rebuilding. 

This week brought a series of actions on climate change from the White House that is building a framework for the climate economy. 

Sam Ricketts, a prominent climate policy adviser, told the Los Angeles Times: “This is the most ambitious climate platform put forward by an American president. [...] It is mobilizing the entirety of the federal government in an unprecedented way. Every agency is now a climate agency.”

On this week's podcast, we’ll sort through it.

Then, last week we covered distributed energy modeling. Now we get to the practice: How do we rebuild markets to accommodate a ton of small-scale resources? They’re doing it in the U.K. We’ve lagged in the U.S. We’ll compare progress in the two countries.

Finally, Elon Musk says he’ll give $100 million to carbon-capture tech that shows promise. He can’t run rockets on electricity. Will he get his carbon-neutral jet fuel?

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