Top 10 Energy and Environmental Issues of 2025, with Karen Palmer, Kevin Rennert, and Margaret Walls

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with research colleagues at Resources for the Future—Senior Fellow Karen Palmer, Fellow Kevin Rennert, and Senior Fellow Margaret Walls—about the top 10 issues of 2025 they’ve been tracking in energy and environmental news from the past year. Among the topics they’ve chosen for conversation: public land sales, electricity load growth and affordability, fires and floods, California and its recent major package of environmental legislation, federal permits for renewable energy projects, and more. It’s a fun conversation with insights on the happenings in 2025 and some prognostications for the coming year. References and recommendations: “What’s Happening to Electricity Affordability? in Five Charts” by Jesse Buchsbaum and Jenya Kahn-Lang; “California’s Innovative Vision for Climate Policy and Energy Affordability” by Dallas Burtraw; “California’s Revamped Energy and Climate Policies” podcast episode with Kate Gordon; “Shifting Ground: Changes in Public Land Policies” webinar event from Resources for the Future; “If/Then: A Last Hurrah for Transatlantic Fossil Fuel Energy Trade?” by Milan Elkerbout and Zach Whitlock; “Landman” television series; “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie; “The Art Thief” by Michael Finkel;

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This episode was published on Jan 6, 2026.

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