Factor This This Week in Cleantech (01/23/2026) - What's a life worth to the EPA?
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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.
This week's episode features special guest Maxine Joselow from the New York Times, who wrote about the EPA's decision to stop assigning a dollar value to lives saved in cost-benefit analyses for major air pollution rules.
This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is funeral director Eric Chamberlain, who helped bring wind power to Rock Port, Missouri, making it one of the first US towns to generate more wind electricity than it used. Nearly two decades later, the wind project is still delivering lasting local benefits through jobs, landowner payments and major county tax revenue. Congratulations, Eric!
This Week in Cleantech — January 23, 2026
- Supreme Court will not hear Duke Energy’s appeal in anti-monopoly case — The Carolina Journal
- Soaring Electricity Costs Are Now a Hot Political Issue — The Wall Street Journal
- Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World — The New York Times
- Solar Projects Face Turmoil Under Trump, but Big Business Is Still Banking on Them — The Wall Street Journal
- What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars. — The New York Times
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