This Week in Cleantech (11/21/2025) - Oil industry gears up for a comeback

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Amy Harder from Axios, who wrote about an oil industry lobbying group spending big to advertise during Paramount’s second season of “Landman."

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Glenna Gannon, an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Glenna led research for an agrivoltaics project in Alaska, helping grow potatoes, kale and spinach underneath the panels. Congratulations, Glenna!

This Week in Cleantech — November 21, 2025 

1. Hydropower Is Getting Less Reliable as the World Needs More Energy — The New York Times
2. Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy – The New Yorker
3. US loans Constellation $1 billion for Three Mile Island reactor reboot — Reuters
4. World Is Off Course on Pledge to Rein in Emissions of Heat-Trapping Methane — Bloomberg
5. "Landman" TV show reflects oil industry's renewed swagger — Axios

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