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    • Oxford University Press | Forthcoming | "How China's Green Strategy is Changing the World" (chapter in The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development)
    • The Brookings Institution | January 2025| "Trump dealmaking could shift the cold war over the climate"
    • The Brookings Institution | February 2023 | "Power Play: How the U.S. Wins if China Greens the Global South"
    • Canary Media | Jan. 31, 2023 | "Can an economic giant clean up natural gas -- and then swap in hydrogen?"
    • Canary Media | Jan. 30, 2023 | "Inside the high-dollar race to sell natural gas as low-carbon"
    • WIRED | September 2022 | "The Carbon Underground"
    • iScience | Nov. 19, 2021 | "Hot Money: Illuminating the Financing of High-Carbon Infrastructure in the Developing World"
    • The Brookings Institution | Nov. 10, 2021 | "Infrastructure in the developing world is a planetary furnace. Here’s how to cool it."
    • New York Times | Nov. 9, 2021 | "Money for Carbon Cuts is Missing the Mark in the Developing World"
    • Fortune | October/November 2021 | "Burned"
    • Joule | July 2021 | "Hard choices about heavy metal on a hot planet"
    • Texas Monthly | June 2021 | "Subsidy Shuffle"
    • Texas Monthly | May 27, 2021 | "ExxonMobil and Its Rivals Learn They Can’t Ignore Climate Activists"
    • Texas Monthly | May 2021 | "Sea Change"
    • Texas Monthly | Feb. 19, 2021 | "The Texas Blackout is the Story of a Disaster Foretold"
    • Fortune | Feb. 16, 2021 | "The electrification of the auto industry is speeding up"
    • The East Asia Institute | Dec. 7, 2020 | "Retreat from the Rock"
    • The Brookings Institution | Sept. 14, 2020 | "The Climate of Chinese Checks"
    • Texas Monthly | July 2020 | "The 'Mother Fracker' Reckons With the Mother of All Oil Busts"
    • Stanford Magazine | June 5, 2020 | "To My Residents, in Tumultuous Times"
    • Fortune | May 2020 | "Why the Coronavirus Crisis Could Make Big Oil Greener"
    • Fortune | April 2020 | "Big Oil's Hail Mary"
    • Fortune | April 2020 | "Inside Project Odessa"
    • Fortune | November 2019 | "Racing a Rising Tide"
    • Fortune | September 2019 | "Electric Car Gold Rush: The Auto Industry Charges Into China"
    • Fortune | September 2019 | "From Fringe to Core" The 'Green' Economy Grows Up"
    • Mother Jones | September/October 2019 | "Burn. Build. Repeat: Why Our Wildfire Policy Is So Deadly"
    • Fortune | June 2019 | "The Race to Build a Better Battery"
    • The Brookings Institution | May 28, 2019 | "Grow Green China Inc.: How China's Epic Push for Cleaner Energy Creates Economic Opportunity for the West"
    • Fortune | May 28, 2019 | "Why the U.S. Should Embrace 'Green China Inc.,' Not Fight It"
    • Fortune | April 2019 | "China's Electric-Car Showdown"
    • Fortune | March 26, 2019 | "Norway's State-Run Oil and Gas Giant Is Backing a Battery-Research Fund"
    • USA Today | Jan. 10, 2019 | "Carbon Prices Are Like Unicorns and Fairy Dust"
    • Joule | December 2018 | "Hot Air Won't Fly: The New Climate Consensus That Carbon Pricing Isn't Cutting It"
    • Wall Street Journal | December 8, 2018 | "Why Californians Were Drawn Toward the Fire Zones"
    • New York Times | September 23, 2018 | "With Climate Change No Longer in the Future, Adaptation Speeds Up"
    • Mother Jones | July/August 2018 | "Sun Blocked"
    • Foreign Affairs | July/August 2018 | "Why Carbon Pricing Isn't Working"
    • Fortune | June 2018 | "Lone Star Rising"
    • The Cairo Review of Global Affairs | Winter 2018 | "The New Age of Renewable Energy"
    • Fortune | February 2018 | "Shell Faces `Lower Forever'"
    • Wall Street Journal | Nov. 13, 2017 | "Will New Tariffs Hurt the U.S. Solar-Power Industry? Yes."
    • Foreign Affairs | July 17, 2017 | Climate Wars
    • New York Times | March 21, 2017 | "Making Solar Big Enough to Matter"
    • Stanford | March 2017 | "The New Solar System"
    • Fortune | March 2017 | "Germany's High-Priced Energy Revolution"
    • Fortune | January 2017 | "Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson: Conflict Ahead?"
    • Fortune | December 2015 | "Silicon Valley's New Power Player: China"
    • New Republic | December 2015 | "Who Will Pay for Climate Change?"
    • The Atlantic | July/August 2015 | "Why the Saudis Are Going Solar"
    • New Republic | February 2015 | "Facing the Truth About Climate Change"
    • Fortune | September 2014 | "The Drama of Mexico's (Black) Gold"
    • Finance and Development | September 2014 | "New Powers"
    • Quartz | June 2013 | "How China's solar boom fizzled and went bust"
    • Foreign Affairs | May/June 2012 | "Tough Love for Renewable Energy"
    • Wall Street Journal "Energy Experts" blog
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    • Oxford University Press | Forthcoming | "How China's Green Strategy is Changing the World" (chapter in The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development)
    • The Brookings Institution | January 2025| "Trump dealmaking could shift the cold war over the climate"
    • The Brookings Institution | February 2023 | "Power Play: How the U.S. Wins if China Greens the Global South"
    • Canary Media | Jan. 31, 2023 | "Can an economic giant clean up natural gas -- and then swap in hydrogen?"
    • Canary Media | Jan. 30, 2023 | "Inside the high-dollar race to sell natural gas as low-carbon"
    • WIRED | September 2022 | "The Carbon Underground"
    • iScience | Nov. 19, 2021 | "Hot Money: Illuminating the Financing of High-Carbon Infrastructure in the Developing World"
    • The Brookings Institution | Nov. 10, 2021 | "Infrastructure in the developing world is a planetary furnace. Here’s how to cool it."
    • New York Times | Nov. 9, 2021 | "Money for Carbon Cuts is Missing the Mark in the Developing World"
    • Fortune | October/November 2021 | "Burned"
    • Joule | July 2021 | "Hard choices about heavy metal on a hot planet"
    • Texas Monthly | June 2021 | "Subsidy Shuffle"
    • Texas Monthly | May 27, 2021 | "ExxonMobil and Its Rivals Learn They Can’t Ignore Climate Activists"
    • Texas Monthly | May 2021 | "Sea Change"
    • Texas Monthly | Feb. 19, 2021 | "The Texas Blackout is the Story of a Disaster Foretold"
    • Fortune | Feb. 16, 2021 | "The electrification of the auto industry is speeding up"
    • The East Asia Institute | Dec. 7, 2020 | "Retreat from the Rock"
    • The Brookings Institution | Sept. 14, 2020 | "The Climate of Chinese Checks"
    • Texas Monthly | July 2020 | "The 'Mother Fracker' Reckons With the Mother of All Oil Busts"
    • Stanford Magazine | June 5, 2020 | "To My Residents, in Tumultuous Times"
    • Fortune | May 2020 | "Why the Coronavirus Crisis Could Make Big Oil Greener"
    • Fortune | April 2020 | "Big Oil's Hail Mary"
    • Fortune | April 2020 | "Inside Project Odessa"
    • Fortune | November 2019 | "Racing a Rising Tide"
    • Fortune | September 2019 | "Electric Car Gold Rush: The Auto Industry Charges Into China"
    • Fortune | September 2019 | "From Fringe to Core" The 'Green' Economy Grows Up"
    • Mother Jones | September/October 2019 | "Burn. Build. Repeat: Why Our Wildfire Policy Is So Deadly"
    • Fortune | June 2019 | "The Race to Build a Better Battery"
    • The Brookings Institution | May 28, 2019 | "Grow Green China Inc.: How China's Epic Push for Cleaner Energy Creates Economic Opportunity for the West"
    • Fortune | May 28, 2019 | "Why the U.S. Should Embrace 'Green China Inc.,' Not Fight It"
    • Fortune | April 2019 | "China's Electric-Car Showdown"
    • Fortune | March 26, 2019 | "Norway's State-Run Oil and Gas Giant Is Backing a Battery-Research Fund"
    • USA Today | Jan. 10, 2019 | "Carbon Prices Are Like Unicorns and Fairy Dust"
    • Joule | December 2018 | "Hot Air Won't Fly: The New Climate Consensus That Carbon Pricing Isn't Cutting It"
    • Wall Street Journal | December 8, 2018 | "Why Californians Were Drawn Toward the Fire Zones"
    • New York Times | September 23, 2018 | "With Climate Change No Longer in the Future, Adaptation Speeds Up"
    • Mother Jones | July/August 2018 | "Sun Blocked"
    • Foreign Affairs | July/August 2018 | "Why Carbon Pricing Isn't Working"
    • Fortune | June 2018 | "Lone Star Rising"
    • The Cairo Review of Global Affairs | Winter 2018 | "The New Age of Renewable Energy"
    • Fortune | February 2018 | "Shell Faces `Lower Forever'"
    • Wall Street Journal | Nov. 13, 2017 | "Will New Tariffs Hurt the U.S. Solar-Power Industry? Yes."
    • Foreign Affairs | July 17, 2017 | Climate Wars
    • New York Times | March 21, 2017 | "Making Solar Big Enough to Matter"
    • Stanford | March 2017 | "The New Solar System"
    • Fortune | March 2017 | "Germany's High-Priced Energy Revolution"
    • Fortune | January 2017 | "Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson: Conflict Ahead?"
    • Fortune | December 2015 | "Silicon Valley's New Power Player: China"
    • New Republic | December 2015 | "Who Will Pay for Climate Change?"
    • The Atlantic | July/August 2015 | "Why the Saudis Are Going Solar"
    • New Republic | February 2015 | "Facing the Truth About Climate Change"
    • Fortune | September 2014 | "The Drama of Mexico's (Black) Gold"
    • Finance and Development | September 2014 | "New Powers"
    • Quartz | June 2013 | "How China's solar boom fizzled and went bust"
    • Foreign Affairs | May/June 2012 | "Tough Love for Renewable Energy"
    • Wall Street Journal "Energy Experts" blog
    • Slate
  • Speaking
    • Lecturing
    • Moderating and interviewing
  • Research & Teaching
  • Media
    • Television
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  • Contact
CCTV AMERICA | JULY 2015 | CHINA'S SOLAR INDUSTRY

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CGTN America | Aug. 8, 2018 | Jeffrey Ball has the latest on California's wildfire

CGTN America | Jan. 25, 2018 | Jeffrey Ball talks the growing industry of off the grid systems

CGTN America | Dec. 28, 2017 | Jeffrey Ball on China's fight against pollution

CCTV America | March 2017 | Clean-energy leapfrogging in Africa

CCTV AMERICA | JULY 2015 | CHINA'S SOLAR INDUSTRY

CCTV AMERICA | JUNE 2014 | CHINA'S SOLAR INDUSTRY

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