Energy Transition
The Permitting Backlog That's Quietly Deciding Whether the Grid Gets Rebuilt.
A four-year investigation into the interconnection queue — and the 1,300 projects stuck inside it.
Climate · The Lead Essay
Inside the small teams of utility workers, municipal lawyers, and union electricians racing to thread new transmission lines through a century of property law — before the next heatwave asks the grid a question it cannot answer.
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A 2,400-word reported feature on California's managed retreat debate — and the property law quietly being rewritten in the process. With six citations and an original map.
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How two reinsurance companies quietly stopped writing policies in 184 ZIP codes — and what the people who live there are doing next.
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1.2M
Monthly readers across 92 countries who read climate coverage on Earshot each month.
6:14
Average verified read-time per climate article — long enough to absorb a citation, short enough to finish before lunch.
94%
Of climate essays published in 2023 were cited or referenced by at least one major outlet, including The New York Times, Wired, and Reuters.
$4.2M
Series A led by First Look Media in November 2023 — with explicit funding earmarked to expand the Climate and Work verticals.
Verified editorial facts, March 2024. Figures cross-checked against our annual transparency report.
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