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Emily Pontecorvo

Emily is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Previously she was a staff writer at the nonprofit climate journalism outlet Grist, where she covered all aspects of decarbonization, from clean energy to electrified buildings to carbon dioxide removal.

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Emily Pontecorvo

Lucid Shrinking

On simplified oil and gas leases, lawsuits over plastic and coal, and a new climate research database

Trump Pays $765 Million to Kill 4 More Offshore Wind Leases

The deal with developer Invenergy includes a commitment to build geothermal generation in addition to natural gas.

Anthropic Is Buying Carbon Removal — But Not Clean Power

That may be not be the case for long, though, as the AI company poaches energy talent from Google, Meta, the DOE, and others.

Are We Too Obsessed With Carbon Accounting?

A new Searchlight Institute report joins a growing chorus arguing that corporate climate targets do more harm than good.