“Climate-induced wildfires, weather extremes, droughts, and floods add urgency to the project of accelerating the clean energy transition from fossil fuels to zero-carbon energy infrastructure. Yet the hurdles to accomplishing such a massive industrial-scale transition are daunting. Indeed, large renewable energy generation projects regularly face denials or project-killing delays across the United States. Klass’ talk will be based on her article that proposes a national policy of “repurposed energy” to channel the bulk of new clean energy projects to abandoned coal mines, retired coal plants, closed landfills, and other underutilized or abandoned urban and rural contaminated properties k...