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Harbinger.
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It’s Easiest to Electrify This Type of Truck

Rob and Jesse talk with John Henry Harris, the cofounder and CEO of Harbinger Motors.

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A New Grand Theory of Why Decarbonization Is So Hard

Rob and Jesse talk with Jessica Green, author of the forthcoming book, Existential Politics.

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The Supreme Court’s Double-Edged Change to Permitting Law

Rob and Jesse pick apart Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s latest opinion with University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley.

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A solar engineer.

How the GOP Megabill Would Reshape the U.S. Energy Economy: Transcript

Rob and Jesse dig into the implications of the House budget bill.

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A solar engineer.

How the GOP Megabill Would Reshape the U.S. Energy Economy

Rob and Jesse dig into the implications of the House budget bill.

Green
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Shift Key Special Edition: The Fight Over the Inflation Reduction Act Has Arrived

Rob and Jesse digest the Ways and Means budget bill live on air, alongside former Treasury advisor Luke Bassett.

The Capitol.
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The fight over the Inflation Reduction Act has arrived. After months of discussion, the Republican majority in the House is now beginning to write, review, and argue about its plans to transform the climate law’s energy tax provisions.

We wanted to record a show about how to follow that battle. But then — halfway through recording that episode — the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee dropped the first draft of its proposal to gut the IRA, and we had to review it on-air.

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The blackout in Spain.
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Last week, more than 50 million people across mainland Spain and Portugal suffered a blackout that lasted more than 10 hours and shuttered stores, halted trains, and dealt more than $1 billion in economic damage. At least eight deaths have been attributed to the power outage.

Almost immediately, some commentators blamed the blackout on the large share of renewables on the Iberian peninsula’s power grid. Are they right? How does the number of big, heavy, spinning objects on the grid affect grid operators’ ability to keep the lights on?

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