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| April 22, 2025 | Planning for Net Zero in an Imperfect World | Niall Mac Dowell | Ambitious climate policies may overlook practical constraints. Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar Niall Mac Dowell explores what deliverable paths to net zero might require. |
| July 2, 2024 | Why New Tech is Key for EPA Methane Rule Compliance | Arvind Ravikumar, John Quigley | The EPA's methane rules for the oil and gas industry will depend on new technologies to monitor and verify climate impacts. |
| June 18, 2024 | Can the Global LNG Market Support U.S. Export Ambitions? | Anne-Sophie Corbeau | Natural gas market expert Anne-Sophie Corbeau explores the global outlook for LNG demand, and the potential for this demand to support the rapid expansion of U.S. LNG export capacity. |
| June 4, 2024 | Power Struggle: The Electric Grid’s Natural Gas Challenge | Seth Blumsack | As the nation’s reliance on natural gas as a fuel for electricity generation has grown, so have reliability challenges. |
| March 5, 2024 | Europe Confronts the Reality of Energy System Sabotage | Benjamin Schmitt | Physical attacks on critical European energy infrastructure have risen since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, threatening energy security and the pace of the low-carbon transition. |
| February 20, 2024 | Accelerating the Energy Transition with Repurposed Energy | Alexandra Klass | Local opposition to clean energy projects slows the transition to a low carbon energy system. A legal expert explores how a national policy of “repurposed energy” could speed things up. |
| September 12, 2023 | Why Oil Companies Support Renewable Energy | Arthur van Benthem | A Penn economist explores the relationship between regional energy policy and oil company support for renewable power. |
| December 6, 2022 | Energy Transition and Opportunity in the Oil Patch | Katie Mehnert | As energy industry growth shifts to the clean sector, oil and gas industry workers seek their paths forward. |
| October 11, 2022 | How Coal Maintains Its Political Hold on West Virginia | James Van Nostrand | West Virginia’s coal industry has out-sized influence in the state’s politics, and in Washington. But the industry’s power has come at a cost to West Virginians. |
| September 13, 2022 | Saudi Arabia Confronts Its Oil Dependence | David Rundell | A former senior U.S. diplomat to Saudi Arabia explores the kingdom’s effort to end its dependence on oil revenue, and the relationship between Saudi Arabia and global efforts to decarbonize. |
| July 5, 2022 | Can Carbon-Negative Oil Be Climate Positive? | Peter Psarras | The fossil fuel industry is investing billions of dollars into projects that will use carbon dioxide captured from the air to produce more oil. What will be the climate impact? |
| April 12, 2022 | Energy and the War in Ukraine | Anna Mikulska | An expert in energy geopolitics discusses the war in Ukraine and its implications for European energy security and decarbonization. The episode was recorded in front of a live audience. |
| March 10, 2022 | Organized Labor Sees Promise in Transition to Clean Energy | Lara Skinner | The transition to a clean energy economy will generate millions of new jobs. Unions are working to ensure that those jobs provide a living wage. |
| February 22, 2022 | Climate Leader Germany Faces Challenging Exit from Coal | Alec MacGillis | ProPublica's Alec MacGillis discusses his recent New Yorker magazine article on Germany’s protracted struggle to wean itself off of coal. |
| February 8, 2022 | How Big Is LNG Opportunity for U.S. Natural Gas Industry? | Robert Johnston | Rising global LNG demand points to a strong future for US LNG exports. But ESG and economic worries loom. |
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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.