Matt and Nick talk about houses falling into the ocean in the Outer Banks (Another Outer Banks home collapses into North Carolina ocean, the 3rd to fall since Friday),

Climate change’s impact on Europe’s flooding (Europe’s September rains were twice as likely due to climate change),

German education about beer-making (Brewing a cold beer on a warming planet is hard. Germany uses education to fight climate change),

The debt-for-nature swap in the Galapagos is under scrutiny (Record Galapagos debt-for-nature swap scrutinized over transparency irregularities claims),

And the rapid intensification of Hurricane Helene (How Hurricane Helene rapidly intensified to a Category 4)!

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Matt and Nick talk about U.S. methane levels still increasing (‘Red Flags’ on Climate: U.S. Methane Emissions Keep Climbing),

The lack of emissions reductions targets around the world (Some 40% of regions, cities and companies lack emissions-cut targets, survey says),

Three Mile Island set to reopen (Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen for Microsoft),

A tobacco-like warning for gas stoves (Gas stoves may get a health warning in California),

And extreme heat’s impact on football (Hotter summers are making high school football a fatal game for some players).

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Matt interviews Cristin Lyons, a Partner and Energy Practice Leader at ScottMadden. The two discuss balancing objectives and trade-offs in the clean energy transitions.

ScottMadden is one of the leading energy management consulting firms in the U.S. focused on transmission and distribution, the grid edge, generation, energy markets, rates and regulation, natural gas, and more.

Cristin oversees ScottMadden's client engagements to transform utility operations and enable the clean energy transition. Before becoming the energy practice lead for three years, she was the head of the firm's grid transformation practice.

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