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Why cutting down trees can save Britain's woodlands, with Luke Barley
Listen to Why cutting down trees can save Britain’s woodlands, with Luke Barley from Climate Curious. “It seems quite counterintuitive to wade in with our chainsaws, but we are replicating a natural process that we’re missing,” says National Trust woodland advisor and author, Luke Barley. Whilst one side of the battle for our world’s forests involves protecting trees from destructive deforestation, Luke shares that British woodlands are actually suffering from the opposite problem, being left entirely alone.
UK energy secretary on net zero and cheaper power: live from New York
Miatta Fahnbulleh, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, discusses the country's energy transition, the push for affordable and secure power and the UK’s role in the global climate action with Bloomberg's Aaron Rutkoff at Bloomberg Green New York 2026. Watch the video of this conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdgTzMIgS9g See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Second federal judge overturns $7B Solar for All cancellation
The decision in a suit brought by Harris County, Texas, follows a similar ruling last week. A Harris County judge called it “a really important victory for energy resilience.”
FERC rejects Oklo complaint seeking to reinstate project to PJM’s interconnection study cycle
The decision affects a 750-MW, mixed technology project in Virginia, which Oklo said would be delayed by at least 14 months if it misses the current interconnection cycle.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Won’t Stop Talking About Climate
How should Democrats campaign on climate? Some are quietly shelving climate-specific language ahead of the midterms in favor of terms like “energy crisis” and “affordability.” But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has been talking about climate change on the Senate floor for more than a decade, and he has no plans to stop now.
Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Drilled global climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani interviews Elisa Morgera, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change about Morgera’s latest report on the fundamental shortcomings of credit markets. Posed as a solution to the climate crisis, carbon credit markets have for years failed to deliver, while violating the human rights of the people most impacted by the climate crisis. Meanwhile, states have developed carbon tunnel-vision, fixating on schemes to reduce carbon emissions, while avoiding the root cause of the issue: fossil fuels.
Attributing Proportionality to Climatic Drivers of Systemic Risk
This Rest is Climate podcast presents a framework for attributing systemic risk in urban environments to specific drivers like climate hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and societal responses. It argues that urban crises, such as the Cape Town “Day Zero” drought, are shaped not only by extreme weather but also by governance delays, unequal household capacities, and infrastructure design.
Exelon’s climate arm backs grid-planning firm Continuum
“Technologies that help the utility be more efficient in terms of building infrastructure … is a space that we're looking at,” an Exelon executive said.
States sue Trump administration, developers over offshore wind lease buyouts
Attorneys general from California and a coalition of Northeastern states accused the federal government of violating a number of laws, and the developers of colluding with the administration.
Advanced transmission projects get $1.9B in DOE funding
The department expects the projects will add 23 GW in grid capacity and will come online in “record time” to improve the existing transmission system.
On clean energy, bigger is not always better
When Congress revisits clean-energy tax policy, lawmakers should restore incentives for locally driven solar and storage projects, writes Edward Yim at Lawyers for Good Government.
Affordability concerns drive momentum for performance-based ratemaking
Michigan is among the states weighing reforms to rate case planning and utility profits. Experts and stakeholders told Utility Dive what works — and what doesn’t.
New York audits utility AI use, cites risk in ‘growing dependency’
Increasing use of AI systems to manage public utilities creates new risks for critical infrastructure, regulators said.
Who Runs the World?: Inside the UN’s Secret Leadership Race
Listen to Who Runs the World?: Inside the UN’s Secret Leadership Race from Outrage + Optimism. The news cameras may be following rising tensions between President Trump and President Pezeshkian of Iran, but deep in the bowels of the United Nations, fifteen countries are about to choose, in private, the person who speaks for 8 billion people.
How to build an electrostate
How to make electricity cheap is a question that’s bedeviling policy makers around the world, particularly in the US and Europe. Some countries, however, have figured it out, including Iceland, Norway and China. So how do we get to that point? And what is the role of government versus the role of technology? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi is joined by Arthur Downing, author of Power and the People, to discuss how to build an electrostate. Explore further: Read Arthur’s Substack: https://energynetworks.substack.com/
Microgrids must push beyond pilots into everyday grid operations: panel
EPRI’s Jackie Baum says microgrids have to do more than sit idle for emergencies. “The majority of the time, the power is on,” she said, urging utilities to use those resources.
FERC has options for modernizing PJM’s governance
The commission’s jurisdiction over transmission governance allows it to modify filing-rights allocations and adjust the PJM Interconnection’s nominating committee, writes Harvard Law’s Ari Peskoe.
FERC rejects ComEd’s cancellation of PowerHouse Hillwood data center contract
A 1.8-GW, $20-billion data center planned by PowerHouse Hillwood was underpinned by a $1 letter of credit — “less than the price of a cup of coffee” — that drew skepticism from FERC Commissioner David LaCerte.
Efforts to curb data center speculation gain ground across the US
Large-load tariffs and other measures to weed out speculative projects are taking shape. Public backlash to data centers, shifting state-level policies and the utility profit model are complicating those efforts, stakeholders say.
Power under pressure: Can energy security, affordability and net zero still move together? | From Climate Week NYC
A fresh shock to global energy markets has pushed an old question back to the center of the climate debate: When supplies tighten and prices rise, do governments double down on the transition, or reach for the fastest fossil fix? From the Strait of Hormuz to rising demand for cooling, the pressure is no longer just about fuel availability. It is about whether power systems can stay secure and affordable while demand keeps climbing and decarbonisation deadlines get closer.
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