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The US is terrible at building public transit. Here's how to get better.
America once led the world in building transit and now leads the world in what transit costs, roughly three times the international average per mile, measured not against authoritarian megaprojects but against Italy, Spain, and Japan. On th...
Making sense of the data center backlash
Data center moratoriums now span 38 states, more than 120 of them, holding up $130 billion in projects. On this episode of Volts, cross-posted with Energy Empire, David Roberts talks with hosts Jigar Shah and Jamie Nolan and Arnab Pal of De...
Spreading the good news about electrification
Electrification is an economic boon and a technological marvel, but the people best positioned to accelerate it are state legislators, many of them freshly elected, who barely know that it’s happening. In this episode, Hawaii state Senator...
Want less sprawl and more urban infill? Try a land value tax!
Property taxes are two taxes stapled together: one on the land, one on whatever gets built on it. Put up an apartment building and the bill goes up. Pave the lot for parking and it stays low. It discourages building and rewards land specula...
Forcing utilities to justify their distribution-system spending
Power utilities spend more on their local distribution systems than almost anything else now — roughly a third of their capital budgets, and the biggest driver of rising electricity bills — yet unlike generation and transmission, that spend...
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