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| June 12, 2018 | Alaska in Energy Spotlight as New Arctic Drilling Looms | Lois Epstein | In the coming years 1.6 million acres of formerly protected Alaskan wilderness will be the site of new oil exploration and drilling. Can the state balance energy development and its environmental heritage? |
| January 31, 2018 | Envisioning a Low Carbon, Lowest Cost Grid | Jesse Jenkins | Today’s electric grid will need to be reimagined to deliver carbon-free power. MIT’s Jesse Jenkins talks about what a deeply decarbonized electricity system might look like, and how to build it at lowest cost. |
| January 16, 2018 | The Local View of Fracking | Daniel Raimi | The view of Americans on the environmental and economic implications of fracking continues to be sharply divided a decade after the shale revolution began. But the author of a new book, The Fracking Debate, finds more nuanced perspectives in wellhead communities. |
| September 19, 2017 | Where Coal Mining Brings Environmental Benefits | Greg Driscoll, John Stefanko | Can tightly regulated coal mining help undo decades worth of environmental damage caused by the coal industry? A Pennsylvania DEP official, and a mining executive, discuss efforts to remediate water and land in the state’s Anthracite coal region. |
| May 16, 2017 | Carbon Capture’s Clean Coal Ambition | John Quigley | Carbon capture and storage has the potential to dramatically reduce the carbon emissions from the burning of coal. Yet the technology’s boosters need to overcome high costs, and major infrastructure challenges, if they’re to make a dent in emissions. |
| May 1, 2017 | Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Should they Stay or Should they Go? | Gilbert Metcalf | Fossil fuel tax breaks cost the U.S. $4 billion per year. A former Treasury Department Environment and Energy official looks at whether that’s money well spent. |
| February 28, 2017 | How U.S. LNG is Changing the Global Gas Market | Anna Mikulska | U.S. natural gas exports are helping to globalize the gas market, putting traditional buyer-seller relationships to the test and raising the possibility of far-reaching geopolitical consequences. |
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Since the first season of our podcast series, Andy Stone has directed each episode of Energy Policy Now—defining topics, inviting guests, and leading informative conversations.
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Andy Stone
Energy Policy Now Host and ProducerAndy Stone is producer and host of Energy Policy Now, the Kleinman Center’s podcast series. He previously worked in business planning with PJM Interconnection and was a senior energy reporter at Forbes Magazine.