The 3 Best Parts Per Billion Podcast Episodes
1) RGGI Still Thriving Despite Revolving Door Membership
It's been nearly 20 years since a handful of northeastern states got together to start a cap-and-trade program for their power sector's greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the membership of the Reg...Show More
2) Florida and Georgia Fight Winner-Take-All Water War
The first argument on the Supreme Court's docket when it returns Feb. 22 from its winter break Feb. 22 is a fight over water rights between Florida and Georgia.Bloomberg Law Florida correspondent Jenn...Show More
3) Save the Everglades, Eat Python for Christmas Dinner
Invasive Burmese pythons are becoming a real problem in Florida’s everglades, where they have no natural predators and are causing plummeting populations of native species like foxes and rabbits. Stat...Show More
4) Firefighters Will Be Suing, Getting Sued Over PFAS
It's well known that using PFAS-laden firefighting foam caused big problems for the military, but it's sometimes overlooked that civilian firefighting agencies are facing many of these same problems. ...Show More
5) States Scramble on Water Rights Pact as Deadline Nears
As a multidecade megadrought continues in the West, the Colorado River Basin is drying up. Today we’ll talk about what that means for the millions of people who depend on that water. And we’ll look at...Show More
6) An Energy Regulator Crossed Manchin, Now He's Gone
About a year ago, Richard Glick was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and was poised to get renominated to a new term. Today, he's out of the job. Glick's plans to more closely scr...Show More
7) Fusion Is Promising, but Isn't a Near-Term Solution
News of the world's first nuclear fusion reaction with a net energy gain created a lot of excitement, and justifiably so—fusion could one day be an infinitely renewable, carbon-free energy source. Po...Show More
8) Big Tech Is Now a Big Player in US Energy Markets
Companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are now some of the country's largest consumers of electric power. And as Bloomberg Law's Daniel Moore reports, they're starting to wield their stron...Show More
9) Manchin Still a Huge Factor on Energy in New Congress
The 117th Congress is coming to a close at the end of this year and, now that most of the midterm races have been called and partisan control of both chambers decided, we have a pretty good idea of wh...Show More
10) EV Mineral Demand May End Alaska Natives' Way of Life
The Biden administration has made it crystal clear that, to solve climate change, we need to source more of the critical minerals that go into electric batteries--and we need to source them domestical...Show More