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Quitting Carbon is an independent publication launched in November 2024 by award-winning journalist Justin Gerdes.

Justin is a veteran energy journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was formerly the managing editor and US senior correspondent for Energy Monitor. He is also a former contributing writer for Greentech Media and author of Quitting Carbon: How Denmark Is Leading the Clean Energy Transition and Winning the Race to the Low-Carbon Future.

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