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🗓️ 14 June 2018
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Elon Musk announced Monday that Tesla is laying off 9 percent of salaried employees at the company. This is not the first round of sweeping layoffs at Tesla — the most recent came after the SolarCity acquisition. But this appears to be the biggest so far.
We'll discuss Elon's new quest for profitability.
Then, we'll cover the never-ending saga in Washington over saving coal plants. The Trump Administration is now trying to invoke national security to prop up closing coal and nuke plants – and the nation’s top energy regulators are giving it the cold shoulder.
Finally, The Energy Gang is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week. To mark the occasion, we'll each pick a single moment from the last five years caused an unstoppable ripple in the world of energy.
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0:48.1 | green tech media. |
0:49.1 | I'm Stephen Lacy. Welcome. I'm not sure I could have imagined a President Donald Trump shaking hands with North Korea's |
1:03.7 | dictator telling him he had a great personality. |
1:06.7 | But then again, 2013 was the year that Dennis Rodman traveled to North Korea to meet with |
1:10.4 | Kim Jong-un. |
1:11.7 | So I guess that was our harbinger. In that spirit, later in the show, |
1:15.2 | we're going to pick a single moment from the last five years that cause an unstoppable ripple in the world of energy, |
1:21.6 | the butterfly effect, so to speak. |
1:23.5 | But first we're talking Tesla, where Musk is laying off 9% of employees |
1:28.0 | and a push toward profitability. |
1:29.5 | We'll look at where the layoffs are hitting and why. We'll also cover the never-ending saga in |
1:34.5 | Washington over saving coal plants. A leaked memo shows the Trump |
1:38.2 | administration is now thinking about invoking national security, a few national |
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