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Apr 20
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Is climate progress doomed?

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Many worry that the clean energy transition will be derailed by the Trump administration. But there's reason to believe otherwise.


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This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Melissa Hirsch and engineered by Matthew Billy. Photo of wind turbines in a storm in western Iowa by Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. 



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