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When the Machine Is Usually Right
The real risk is not just AI errors, it is that many users cannot verify when the system is wrong
Apr 13
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Adam Stein
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Paying Extra for Biofuels, Twice
How California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard subsidizes biofuels already mandated by federal law
Apr 8
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Dan Blaustein-Rejto
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Lauren Teixeira
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The Dominion Ecology of Project Hail Mary
What the movie reveals about an emerging techno-ecological consensus
Apr 3
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Isaiah Menning
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The Aluminum Tech Stack
Downstream manufacturing mastery requires upstream scale
Apr 1
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Seaver Wang
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March 2026
Paul Ehrlich Was Wrong About India
How Policy, Technology, and Markets Defied Predictions of Famine
Mar 30
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Vijaya Ramachandran
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Don’t Let Stealth Deregulation Sink Permitting Reform
Make Transmission Policy Technical, Not Ideological
Mar 25
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Ted Nordhaus
,
Ryan Alimento
, and
Seaver Wang
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Against Climate Lawfare
Why Breakthrough Filed an Amicus Brief in Lighthiser v. Trump
Mar 23
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Ted Nordhaus
and
Alex Trembath
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The Cruelty Is the Point
On Paul Ehrlich and Malthusian Malevolence
Mar 20
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Alex Trembath
90
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The Pawn Trade That Could Unlock Permitting Reform
How a detente over Clean Water Act Section 401 could unlock climate progress
Mar 18
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Marc Levitt
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The Iran War Underscores the Need for Bipartisan Energy Policy
To overcome the looming oil crisis, policymakers should look to energy initiatives of the 1970s.
Mar 16
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Alex Trembath
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Glyphosate’s Environmental Benefits
How the controversial herbicide saves wildlife and where it still falls short
Mar 13
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Mining Needs Permitting Reform Too
How stalled progress by Congress will push the mining sector abroad
Mar 11
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Peter Cook
,
Elizabeth McCarthy
, and
Seaver Wang
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