Today, Explained

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Google Podcasts

Can power plants go green?

The EPA has just announced new rules for power plants to clean up their act. But to get to those lower limits, companies might have to switch to two largely untested technologies in the power sector: hydrogen production and carbon capture. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

• 

  Taxing traffic

• 

  Everybody’s moving to Florida

• 

  Autoworkers slam the brakes

• 

  Blame Capitalism: Profit over everything

• 

  From North Korea with Love

• 

  New variant just dropped

• 

  In Google we antitrust

• 

  Hunter becomes the hunted

• 

  Blame Capitalism: Souring on the system

• 

  From Pac-12 to Pac-2

• 

  Why American sunscreen sucks

• 

  The new Cold War

• 

  …We’re trusting it anyway

• 

  We don’t know how AI works…

• 

  #SeAcabo: Spain’s World Cup reckoning

• 

  The Real Housewives of Today, Explained