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Recently, a team of reporters at The New York Times

produced what kind of feels like an optimistic break

from the doom and gloom of climate news.

Huge swats of our country are turning away from fossil fuels

as an energy source and investing in wind, solar,

and other renewable energy.

We're talking places like Texas and Oklahoma,

once dominated by oil and gas,

now building essentially new industries.

The New York Times three-part series called The Energy Transition

explores the speed, challenges, politics, and economics of this move

toward newer sources of energy.

You've already heard it.

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