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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week’s episode features special guest Mark Gongloff from Bloomberg, who wrote about how Senate Republicans are proposing nearly $18 billion in new subsidies for fossil-fuel companies over the next decade.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Mark Jacobs, co-founder of EVmath. Mark led marketing for the DOE-funded EMPOWER Project which helps workplaces install EV chargers for their employees.

This Week in Cleantech — July 11, 2025

1. Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy has just begun — The Washington Post
2. The Permitting Crisis for Renewables — Heatmap News
3. How the Trump tax bill could help China win at A.I. — The Washington Post
4. America invents. Others deploy. — Latitude Media
5. The GOP Wants to Give Big Oil a Handout It Doesn’t Need — Bloomberg

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Tell us what you think of the show!

This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week’s episode features special guest Maeve Allsup from Latitude Media, who wrote about how a a new startup allowed an Oracle data center using Nvidia GPUs to cut its power consumption 25% during hours of peak grid demand without sacrificing performance.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is JoeBen Bevirt, founder of Joby Aviation, a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service. This week, its electric air taxi completed a series of piloted, vertical-takeoff-and-landing wingborne flights in Dubai. Congratulations, JoeBen!

This Week in Cleantech — July 07, 2025

1. Ford Forced to Idle Multiple US Plants on China Magnet Shortage – Bloomberg
2. China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future – New York Times
3. Climate threat to U.S. infrastructure is accelerating. Here's what's most at risk – CNBC
4. Red States–And AI–Are Big Losers From Trump’s Clean Energy Massacre – Forbes
5. Nvidia and Oracle tapped this startup to flex a Phoenix data center – Latitude Media

Want to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com

Tell us what you think of the show!

This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week’s episode features special guest Michael Grunwald from the Atlantic, who wrote aobut how we won’t meet climate goals without fixing our food system.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Kakani Katija, creator of the gaming app FathomVerse. This summer, Katija’s team plans to test an AI underwater robot that will search for specific marine species and collect data. The goal is to deploy a fleet of underwater AI-enabled drones constantly monitoring marine animals to gain insight into the ocean’s impact on global climate.

This Week in Cleantech — June 27, 2025

1. The U.S. Gave Up Its Lead in Clean Energy Sectors Before. It Might Be Doing It Again. — The Wall Street Journal
2. Blackouts, Brownouts, and Freaked-Out Grid Operators: The Summer of Load Has Arrived — Heatmap News
3. ‘Throwing us off a cliff’: Megabill could derail hundreds of planned clean energy projects — POLITICO
4. New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation — The Wall Street Journal
5. Humanity Can Quit Fossil Fuels—But Not Food — The Atlantic

Want to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com