“Americans are facing an energy affordability crisis, and relief can’t come soon enough. How current officials and winning candidates tackle energy affordability will determine whether states maintain progress in decarbonizing their energy systems or lock in new fossil fuel infrastructure for decades to come. Though candidates are prioritizing the issue in their midterm campaigns, too often, they fail to provide the climate context worsening this crisis.

“Join Covering Climate Now and Canary Media for a special conversation explaining what’s causing the energy affordability crisis, including the impact of AI data centers, which are turbocharging energy demand and costs around the country; what elected officials can do; and, crucially, how climate change threads throughout the whole conversation. Come with questions, leave with story ideas!”