Washington, D.C., every mention
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This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- ▶ 1:45 Lara Pierpoint And to see it in action, he looks to the crypto industry, which has overtaken Washington.
- ▶ 5:44 Lara Pierpoint We started our conversation by talking about the state of play in Washington.
- ▶ 18:10 Lara Pierpoint Is it that simple today, or is there a different message that startups need to be holding in their conversations in D.C.?
- ▶ 23:14 Lara Pierpoint Yeah, I think this is really critical, and I love how this connects to what you were saying earlier, that I think for founders, you may be thinking to yourself, well, I'll go to D.C. when I need something, like when that becomes critical. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:10 Lara Pierpoint One of the things that I also viscerally remember from my time in Washington, D.C. working on climate is that the funny thing about, it's really energy in particular, at least in those days, which is to say longer ago than I would care to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:22 Lara Pierpoint Because at the end of the day, it's like all of these realities about the dynamics on how things work in Washington, T.C. can be traced back to these bigger social causes, and so that's, you know, really the thing that we wound up… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:47 Lara Pierpoint Any moments in time when you're somewhere in Washington, D.C., you're trying to convince a policymaker of something, or you're working with a startup and trying to train them up to talk to someone? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:26 Lara Pierpoint What are some of the things in general that give you the most hope right now for climate and for policy in Washington, D.C.?
The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- ▶ 13:42 Lara Pierpoint And let's, let's go back to this moment, too, because you mentioned the sort of cutoff of funding from Washington, D.C., and, um, and that was a pretty insane moment because it was an even crazier reason than just sort of like political…
Open Circuit: Jigar, Katherine, and Stephen are back
- ▶ 23:34 Katherine Hamilton Yeah, so Kay Kaufman, who's the Mid-Atlantic Bureau Chief at RTO Insider, covered the NASIO Conference, which is the Association of State Energy Officials, which recently had their big conference in D.C., and Lou Herkman, who is the new…
- ▶ 27:36 Jigar Shah Um, coming to DC is fine, but honestly, what's more valuable is actually going to people's district offices. 2 times in the scene
The ‘third inning’ of the energy transition [partner content]
Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
- ▶ 2:41 Stephen Lacey Not to be outdone, Catherine Hamilton comes to us as one of Washingtonian Magazine's 500 most influential people of D.C. for a third year in a row. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 Stephen Lacey And Catherine, I'm wondering, how is the election starting to influence the way people are talking about these issues in DC right now? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:26 Stephen Lacey The big news in nuclear power came out of Washington recently when lawmakers passed a major piece of bipartisan legislation promoting advanced reactors as part of the ADVANCE Act.
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 25:51 Anne Bailey I stumped around in these six-inch heels all through the bowels of our government, the climate drag queen and queer activist said Tuesday during an interview at Earth Justice's office in downtown Washington.
A view of the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
- ▶ 2:16 Katherine Hamilton We don't have as much snow, uh, which is great, because next week is Neruk in D.C., and it's usually really bad weather then, and I'm hoping that it'll be just nice and cold and sunny.
US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
- ▶ 52:20 Stephen Lacey Catherine, any thoughts on how this is playing out in Washington and what the pause could look like?
The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
- ▶ 51:29 Stephen Lacey I was in D.C. recently and spoke to some political appointees who were feeling very freaked out that, like, the work that they're doing, they have a year left to do it, and they're not really banking on additional years, and that's a very…
LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
- ▶ 2:32 Stephen Lacey He's an influential analyst and political strategist who works on energy, climate, and conservation issues in Washington.
Inflation plagues clean energy. How bad is it?
- ▶ 3:10 Stephen Lacey She's in D.C.
America’s historic climate law, one year on
- ▶ 30:10 Jeff St. John I talked to a CEO of a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that is working with a faith-based nonprofit in Baltimore, Maryland, to put direct pay to use for the first time in a, uh, in a youth center and main campus solar and battery… 2 times in the scene
The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
- ▶ 0:07 Stephen Lacey I lived in Washington DC for many years, and I became accustomed to the random ad campaigns focused on some niche legislative topic that would pop up around the city, often on bus stops, or inside the metro, or in a newspaper.
EVs are a catalyst for broader electrification [partner content]
- ▶ 7:39 Annette Clayton It's right outside of Washington, D.C., and this is the first microgrid to power electric, electric buses in that region, and the project was delivered with no upfront cost to the county as an energy to service contract, and it, you know,…
Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff?
- ▶ 1:46 Stephen Lacey I'm sitting in a hotel room in Washington, D.C. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:35 Stephen Lacey I'm Stephen Lacey, and this week we're coming to you live from the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Washington, D.C. 2 times in the scene
America’s green industrial strategy 2.0
- ▶ 8:22 Stephen Lacey He's one of the key figures working on getting smart government money into, uh, private cutting-edge projects, and he joins us from D.C.
- ▶ 20:57 Stephen Lacey Now, that seems very obvious to people in this room and the folks who listen to this show, but I wonder, Catherine, like, does that seem obvious politically in Washington or to Republican governors in the states who, you know, are going to…
What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- ▶ 9:50 Miranda Green So we started digging into the woman who created it, Susan Ralston, who, interestingly enough, has mostly an entire business connected to Washington, D.C.
Stunning new data on coal vs renewables
- ▶ 19:28 Stephen Lacey So you're there in Washington DC at a meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
The make-or-break moment for America’s energy transition
- ▶ 0:12 Stephen Lacey Gas stoves were one of the biggest stories in Washington politics and on cable news last week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Katherine Hamilton Is that it really democratized the process, and it allowed a lot more people to be involved, so people who couldn't afford to fly into D.C., people who weren't normally roaming the halls of Congress, people who were deploying projects out…
Gas stations vs utilities: battle for the future of charging
- ▶ 14:24 David Ferris And, and the fact is that this, the way this got ugly, uh, was last spring and summer in Washington, D.C., when the bipartisan infrastructure bill was being created.
The ‘ecological ponzi scheme’ putting Florida at risk
- ▶ 9:31 Michael Grunwald And now, of course, we see the consequences, and the consequences will be Florida's gonna put its hand out and ask Washington, D.C. to pay for all this, and probably they will.
A heat limit ‘no meteorologist thought we would cross’
- ▶ 25:14 Stephen Lacey He spoke to me from Washington, D.C., where he was also preparing for a nearly 100 degree day.
Are Biden’s climate ambitions in Congress dead?
- ▶ 1:09 Stephen Lacey Negotiations with Manchin had been ongoing for months among top Democrats in the Senate, and most people, including Katherine Hamilton, who runs a D.C. public policy firm called 38 North Solutions, thought a deal was imminent.
- ▶ 4:07 Sam Ricketts Sam Ricketts also watched the drama unfold from D.C.
- ▶ 19:48 Sam Ricketts That's why this has remained such a focus for lawmakers in D.C., for the administration and for Congress, both in getting this investment package over the finish line is how central it is in driving investments into building the…
One weird trick to decarbonize your home
- ▶ 11:07 Stephen Lacey This is part of a bigger push in Washington for heat pumps.
The military’s net-zero aspirations
- ▶ 2:51 Stephen Lacey That's an organization that acts like a bridge between the U.S. intelligence community and Washington policymakers.
Could a ‘green upheaval’ embolden Russia?
- ▶ 10:37 Jason Bordoff They're the only country that intentionally, at a cost to themselves, withholds, withholds oil from the market that they could be selling in order to be able to play a balancing role and field that call from Washington or anywhere else…
Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
- ▶ 1:07 Stephen Lacey She's worked in Washington for three decades lobbying for clean energy programs.
- ▶ 5:52 Stephen Lacey She's chair of the D.C. public policy firm called 38 North Solutions.
- ▶ 18:55 Katherine Hamilton Well, here we are in the middle of a snowstorm here in Washington, D.C., and I wonder how many people will be trotting out the old, but it's snowing, it can't be global warming.