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Mar 2021
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Inside the energy world’s big confab

POLITICO
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Anyone who is someone in the energy world is at CERA Week. The conference, which puts together the most important names in the fossil fuel industry inside the same building in Texas, is back on this week. But in 2021, the conference organizers are learning that going virtual isn’t the only change to the conference: to stay relevant, they’ve expanded the scope of the talks to the climate change, renewables the energy transition. Today, Ben Lefebvre, with the biggest takeaways from the first day of CERA Week 2021.

Anthony Adragna is an energy reporter for POLITICO and host of POLITICO Energy.
Ben Lefebvre covers energy for POLITICO.
Carlos Prieto is a Politico podcast producer.
Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.
Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.

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