Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It’s 2040. Clean energy is widely accessible and affordable across the US. Communities built on fossil fuels have reinvented themselves. Industries once thought “impossible” to decarbonize now run on new power. How did we get here? What policy choices, technological bets, and investment decisions made it possible? And what does that world look like for American workers, families, and businesses? We start from the destination and work backward, asking what it takes and what we risk getting wrong.
It’s 2040. Clean energy is widely accessible and affordable across the US. Communities built on fossil fuels have reinvented themselves. Industries once thought “impossible” to decarbonize now run on new power. How did we get here? What policy choices, technological bets, and investment decisions made it possible? And what does that world look like for American workers, families, and businesses? We start from the destination and work backward, asking what it takes and what we risk getting wrong.
