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PodcastJune 12, 2025

E7: Cleaner air

TILclimate Podcast

PostMay 6, 2025

How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?

MIT Energy Initiative

India has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions, a difficult task as the country’s electric power system relies on many coal-burning power plants. While some of the plants are fuel-efficient (right), many more are not (left). MITEI researchers have explored and clarified India’s decarbonization options and have posted their methods and results for use by other countries in the midst of similar energy transitions.

PodcastFebruary 20, 2025

E1: Farm to table, with a side of fossil fuels

TILclimate Podcast

PostJanuary 23, 2025

What happens after Utah’s coal-fired power plants close?

a solar plant being installed in front of Huntington Power Plant in Emory County, Utah

PostDecember 25, 2024

How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community

Residents and visitors watch as the city float drives by in the annual light parade in Helper, Utah.

PostDecember 23, 2024

Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers

Dillion Grimmett, a coal miner who works at Gentry, sits in the mine’s main office entryway.

PostDecember 13, 2024

What will it take for the American steel industry to go ‘fossil-free’?

At HYBRIT's fossil-free steel plant in Luleå, Sweden, hydrogen made with renewable electricity turns reddish iron ore pellets, left, into grey pellets of sponge iron, which are ready to be melted down and made into steel.

PostDecember 4, 2024

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers designed a two-part catalyst that can convert methane gas to useful products. The catalyst consists of iron-modified aluminum silicate plus an enzyme called alcohol oxidase (enzyme not pictured).

PostOctober 30, 2024

Trump has derided Biden's landmark climate programs. Would he ditch hydroge...

PostOctober 2, 2024

Choosing Climate Policies in a Second-best World with Incomplete Markets

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

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