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And while Democrats said little directly about the climate emergency and the environment during their campaigns, the change of control means Republican anti-environment measures like fossil fuel expansion and public land exploitation may be slowed down or even halted.

To talk us through what these results could mean for the climate and environment, Jenny and I are joined by our colleagues from our media partner, Inside Climate News.

Executive Editor Vernon Loeb is based in Philadelphia.

Clean Energy Reporter Dan Garino is based in Columbus, Ohio.

moderate on energy, progressive in most other ways, talking about running for president from Pennsylvania with both houses of the legislature for the first time in 30 years.

Pretty amazing.

You're listening to our post-election roundtable with Vernon Loeb, Marianne Lavelle, and Dan Garino of our media partner, Inside Climate News.

And we'll be right back after the break.

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Zoe Rome is a freelance journalist and audio producer in Carbondale, Colorado, with bylines in the New York Times, High Country News, and Inside Climate News.

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And this is like a fairly obvious question, but maybe if you could expand on it a little bit, how does the public feel about this broadly? And what are some of the ways that the public and even, you know, public representatives, let's say, are pushing back against the proliferation of sort of unregulated data centers?

Yeah, I mean, you know, I think one of the first stories that I read from our friends at Inside Climate News that gave me like a sense of like, OK, you know, again, this idea of an organizing opportunity.

The piece covered a white family, rather affluent, who retired and moved from the city of Atlanta to a more rural place that they thought was going to be their Shangri-La, so to speak, where they would retire, live out their years, have their grandkids visit and all that.

And then a hyperscale data center was built nearby.

And the boring stuff just got very expensive.

A new report from Inside Climate News, published this morning, lays out how China is using its enormous wind, solar, and battery industries to feed AI computing, while the United States leans harder on natural gas.

Let's make it concrete before we go big picture.

What is actually running out there right now, today, rather than sitting in a government planning document or a glossy press release about the future?

So there's lots to talk about, lots of nuance here to dig into.

Lastly, just want to point out at the top that this case and others like it are really born out of the crucial investigative reporting from Inside Climate News, Columbia Journalism Review.

and the LA Times a decade ago that first uncovered what Exxon scientists knew about climate change, when they knew it, and what they did with that knowledge.

Since then, a lot of additional journalistic investigations have been cited in these cases.

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The governor's office insists no permits have been approved.

So what's going on? What's the real story here? Dylan Baddour has been looking into that for Inside Climate News.

Dylan, welcome back.

Thanks, David.

So a center needs to gather all these different permits before they're ready to go.

There's no real final moment when they have that last permit to build a data center.

You can check out this story in depth for yourself at Inside Climate News or at our own website, TexasStandard.org. Dylan Baddour is a reporter for Inside Climate News.

He's been covering the story closely.

This is a graph showing capacity auction prices in the PJM grid.

I should say these past three graphs I've shown on PJM, or four graphs, these are all from an incredible Inside Climate News article that I can share in the notes.

It's very informative, would highly recommend.

So as you can see in 2025 and 2026, the capacity auction prices at PJM spike.