Caro Claire Burke
speaker
4,515 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Caro Claire Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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After the bill died, Manchin, normally the scourge of the progressives, left no doubt which side killed it.
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Quote, once again, Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership have put their own political agenda above the needs of the American people.
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Now that Trump is back in office, he is streamlining fossil fuel permits while punishing solar and wind, all without receiving any pushback from his own party.
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In the West, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and U.S.
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Army Corps of Engineers constructed dams like Bonneville and Grand Coulee on the Columbia, Fort Peck on the Missouri, and Shasta on the Sacramento.
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Private utilities countered that the United States, in the midst of the Great Depression, was already generating excess power, and the dams would only exacerbate the surplus.
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The mistake was to see consumption as largely fixed, dismissing the possibility that lower rates would stimulate much greater use.
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In other words, it took public action to break the hold of privately maintained scarcity and deliver abundant power.
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As economic geographer Brett Christophers has demonstrated in his study of the economics of climate transition, environmental law is only one piece of the puzzle.
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The decisive choke point is profitability.
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Whenever a project's expected returns sink below the hurdle rate investors demand, developers and lenders alike pull capital, whatever the state of the environmental paperwork.
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This was the case in 2022, when Avangrid's Massachusetts offshore wind contract became so unbankable after turbine price and interest rate spikes that the company chose to pay nearly $50 million in penalties rather than build at a loss.
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In spring 2024, regular negative price episodes in ERCOT, roughly one in every 12 settlement intervals, prompted three West Texas solar sponsors to cancel tax equity closings they had already booked.
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Orsted's abandonment of the New Jersey Ocean Wind Offshore Project followed the same script.
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Once its locked-in purchasing price agreement price could no longer cover debt service, the firm simply canceled and wrote off the $4 billion project.
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In each of these cases, and many more, profit expectations and the fear of having to supply electricity at low or even negative cost hamstrung the deployment of clean energy.
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Finance dreads overcapacity because true abundance hammers the very margins its models depend on.
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But economies are not bounded by land.
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Ideas and the technologies and companies and products they power draw the outer borders of growth.
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The land that matters most is the land that aids in the fiery creation of the new.
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