Recent Episodes

He Started Tesla Employees Against Elon. Then Got Fired.
July 1, 2025
Matt LaBrot was the Tesla sales manager who got so fed up with how Elon Musk’s public persona affected the brand that he published a website...

Is the EV Transition Stuck in Neutral?
June 27, 2025
The Biden administration set ambitious goals to rapidly electrify the U.S. car market. But in spite of significant government incentives provided...

Dead Heat: The Danger Of Home Power Shutoffs
June 20, 2025
Summer is here, temperatures are rising — and so are electric bills. That also means many Americans are facing a severely overlooked issue:...

Super Pollutants: The Hidden Half of Global Warming
June 13, 2025
About half of global warming is driven by pollutants that aren’t carbon dioxide. There are several of these “super pollutants” — so named...

Three Big Thinkers With No Room for Doom
June 6, 2025
There’s so much hard and heavy news out there right now, climate related and not. It feels like decades of progress is being lost. “We can...

I’m Walkin’ Here! A Report Card on Congestion Pricing
May 30, 2025
For years, traffic in downtown Manhattan was a gridlock nightmare. But since January, drivers who come into the city’s busiest area during peak...

Murder, Pollution as Policy, and Two Women Who Won’t Give Up
May 23, 2025
Some may know Alexis Madrigal as the host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco’s NPR station. He’s also the author of “The Pacific Circuit,”...

Honoring Environmental Heroes in 2025
May 16, 2025
What compels ordinary people to take extraordinary actions in defense of clean air and water? Every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize...

Tracking Trump’s Attack on Environmental Protections
May 9, 2025
About fifty years ago, multiple environmental disasters, including the Cuyahoga River catching fire, forced a reckoning with how we care for the...

San José Mayor Matt Mahan: Live from SF Climate Week
May 6, 2025
Climate progress is stalling at the federal level, making local action more critical than ever. “In an increasingly urbanized world, cities must...