Energy Policy Now
152 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsEnergy Policy Now offers clear talk on the policy issues that define our relationship to energy and its impact on society and the environment. The series is produced by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and hosted by energy journalist Andy Stone. Join Andy in conversation with leaders from industry, government, and academia as they shed light on today's pressing energy policy debates.
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Climate Shocks and Green Returns
March 28, 2023 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBNew research examines the relationship between climate change-related events and returns on green investment, and why returns for green stocks might lag those of brown. --- At first look it would seem to make sense that, as climate concerns grow, green investments would outperform investments in dirty industries. To put this into an energy context, as policymakers require more renewable energy to be deployed, and as investors flock to companies with low climate impacts and risks, the value...
How Families Cope with Energy Insecurity
March 14, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBNew research looks into the coping mechanisms that families use to navigate energy insecurity, as a guide for policy-based solutions. --- The number of American households experiencing energy insecurity spiked during the COVID pandemic in 2020, as growing unemployment and falling incomes made it difficult for more households to balance utility bills with other financial demands. Yet the rising incidence of energy insecurity, and the often short-term focus of assistance to keep families fin...
Scaling Private Finance for Global Solar Growth
February 28, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBA working paper from WRI, the International Solar Alliance and Bloomberg Philanthropies examines the essential role of private finance in scaling solar power development. --- A recent working paper from the World Resources Institute, the International Solar Alliance and Bloomberg Philanthropies finds that $1 trillion must be invested into solar energy by 2030 if global warming is to be kept within the limits of the Paris Climate Agreement. Yet global investment in solar today is just half...
The Complex, Politically Fraught Path to Building Electrification
February 14, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBJudy Chang, former Massachusetts undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions, discusses the need to educate consumers on the imperative to cut building emissions. --- Residential and commercial buildings account for nearly a third of climate warming greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Yet efforts to reduce the climate footprint of buildings have become political lightning rods. Local regulations requiring new homes to be fully electrified often encounter fierce pushback, wh...
Will New Technology and Climate Change Save Nuclear Power?
January 31, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBDaniel Poneman, former U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary and current CEO of Centrus Energy, explores resurgent interest in nuclear power a decade after Fukushima. --- Growing concern over energy security and climate change has revived interest in nuclear power in some of the world’s most energy-intensive economies. In Japan, nuclear generators that closed following the 2011 Fukushima disaster are reopening, while Germany has extended the operating life of the country’s remaining nuclear facilit...
China Plays Competitor, and Collaborator, in the Energy Transition
January 17, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBScott Moore, author of China’s Next Act, discusses China’s global role in energy technology and sustainability. --- China is indispensable in the global effort to address climate change and speed forward the transition to clean energy. Yet the country, which leads the world in both energy consumption and the manufacture of clean energy technologies, finds itself engaged in increasingly tense diplomatic and economic relations with the world’s developed economies, its key partners in address...
Overcoming Economic Barriers to Electrifying Everything
December 13, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBBerkeley economist Meredith Fowlie explains why the drive to electrify everything in American homes is at odds with electricity rate setting practices, and explores pricing reforms to deliver rapid and equitable electrification. --- “Electrify everything” has become a mantra of decarbonization, and it’s one of the key strategies to reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Yet the process of electrifying everything from home heating to transportation creates challenges for the electricity system,...
Energy Transition and Opportunity in the Oil Patch
December 06, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBAs energy industry growth shifts to the clean sector, oil and gas industry workers seek their paths forward. --- The past three years have been a particularly volatile period for the oil and gas industry. The sector has been impacted by the Covid pandemic, during which energy demand crashed and the price of oil contracts briefly went negative. More recently, oil and gas prices reached peaks in response to the war in Ukraine and the tightening of energy supply. In addition to this volatili...
COP27 Dispatch: The Struggle for Agricultural Sustainability Under Climate Stress
November 19, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBAndrew Hoffman, dean of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, explores the intersection of climate change, agricultural sustainability, and food security. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share their observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Andrew Hoffman, dean of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, discusses COP...
COP27 Dispatch: Can the COP Process Deliver Climate Action?
November 18, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBCOP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt has been called the “implementation COP”. Yet concern exists that the COP process may be ill suited to putting climate plans into action. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share their observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Koko Warner, manager of the UNFCCC’s Vulnerability subdivisi...
COP27 Dispatch: Food Waste Gains Attention in Climate Discussions
November 17, 2022 19:25 - 22 minutes - 21 MBFood waste is a major driver of climate change, and a cause of food insecurity. UPenn’s Steven Finn highlights the challenge and solutions discussed at COP27. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Steven Finn, affiliated faculty in Penn’s Organizational Dynamics program, di...
COP27 Dispatch: China’s Rapidly Evolving Role in Global Climate Negotiations
November 16, 2022 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBScott Moore, Director of the Penn Global China Program, discusses China’s perspective on loss and damage finance, and the country’s future role in the Paris climate process. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Scott Moore, Director of the Penn Global China Program, disc...
COP27 Dispatch: As Climate Impacts Grow, Cities Explore Paths to Adaptation
November 15, 2022 17:08 - 19 minutes - 18 MBThree experts on cities discuss the efforts of urban communities to navigate climate change. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share their observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Eugenie Birch, Bill Burke-White, and Mauricio Rodas of the University of Pennsylvania explore the challenges that climate change, and eff...
COP27 Dispatch: What Defines a Successful National Adaptation Plan?
November 14, 2022 20:48 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBNew research explores ways to measure countries' success in adapting to climate change. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share their observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Allison Lassiter of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design discusses the role of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) in the Pa...
COP27 Dispatch: Why Loss and Damage Finance is Critical to Small Island States
November 11, 2022 17:51 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBLoss and damage finance has made it onto the official COP agenda for the first time at Sharm El-Sheikh. An expert on small island states discusses why the issue has been so contentious. --- Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share their observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation. Stacy-ann Robinson, a visiting scholar at th...
What Impact Will the IRA Have On Consumer Energy Costs?
October 27, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBNew research from Resources for the Future quantifies the Inflation Reduction Act's expected impact on clean energy development, energy costs, and emissions. --- The Inflation Reduction Act provides hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of incentives for clean energy, and is a key part of the U.S.’s effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. New research from Resources for the Future examines the extent to which the IRA may in fact incentivize the development of wind and solar power, ...
How Coal Maintains Its Political Hold on West Virginia
October 11, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBWest Virginia’s coal industry has out-sized influence in the state’s politics, and in Washington. But the industry’s power has come at a cost to West Virginians. --- The state of West Virginia has made headlines over the past year on the high profile of its senior senator, Joe Manchin, who has been the swing vote in the Senate on major energy legislation. Most dramatically, Manchin’s last-minute deal with Senate Democratic leadership in July allowed for the passage of the Inflation Reducti...
Scaling Green Hydrogen for a Global Market
September 27, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBGreen hydrogen hubs are being developed in some of the world’s most remote locations, to serve growing clean energy demand in Asia, Europe and the U.S. --- Alicia Eastman, President of Intercontinental Energy, discusses the nascent global market for green hydrogen and her company’s development of more than 100 gigawatts of hydrogen production hubs along coastal deserts in the Arabian Peninsula and Australia. Eastman explores the economic and policy factors, including the Inflation Reductio...
Saudi Arabia Confronts Its Oil Dependence
September 13, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBA former senior U.S. diplomat to Saudi Arabia explores the kingdom’s effort to end its dependence on oil revenue, and the relationship between Saudi Arabia and global efforts to decarbonize. --- Saudi Arabia is the world’s leading exporter of oil. Yet it is also a country that is in the midst of an ambitious drive to end its dependence on oil revenue as the foundation of its national economy. Saudi Arabia’s effort to economically diversify follows a decade of oil market volatility that has...
Can Clean Energy Deliver Energy Justice to Canada’s First Nations?
August 02, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBA prominent advocate for indigenous rights in Canada sees promise in clean energy. --- The Canadian province of Alberta is home to the Oil Sands, a vast subarctic region that is rich in crude oil, and which has been a focus of controversy for decades over the environmental and climate impacts of the fossil fuel mining that takes place there. Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a prominent indigenous rights advocate and member of the Lubicon Cree Nation, discusses her community’s ongoing struggle to ...
Proposed FERC Rules Aim to Accelerate Grid Decarbonization
July 19, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThe United States’ electricity regulator has proposed two major electricity market reforms that could speed the pace of renewable energy development. --- In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of proposed clean energy projects in the United States. In fact, the amount of clean energy that’s waiting in line to connect to the nation’s electric grid is greater than the total installed generating capacity on the grid today. The prospect of so much clean energy in w...
Can Carbon-Negative Oil Be Climate Positive?
July 05, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThe fossil fuel industry is investing billions of dollars into projects that will use carbon dioxide captured from the air to produce more oil. What will be the climate impact? --- In April the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change identified carbon dioxide removal as an essential tool in the global effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions. One technology-based type of carbon dioxide removal known as direct air capture (DAC) has the potential to reduce net carbon dioxide emission by...
Will Defense Production Act Spur Solar Supply Chain Development?
June 21, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBAn expert in international trade policy discusses the Biden Administration’s use of the Defense Production Act, and tariff restrictions, to build a competitive US solar supply chain. --- In early June the Biden Administration invoked the Defense Production Act in an effort to rebuild America’s domestic solar energy manufacturing supply. Simultaneously, the Administration announced that it will prohibit for two years new tariffs on imports of solar cells from four Southeast Asian countries ...
How Will Energy Dollars in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Be Spent?
June 14, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBAdvanced Energy Economy’s Leah Rubin Shen discusses energy spending priorities in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. --- In November President Biden signed into law the signature legislation of his Presidency to date, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill includes more than $100 billion dollars in funding for clean energy technology, infrastructure and climate preparedness, making it the most significa...
Raw Materials Pose ESG Challenge for EV Industry
June 07, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBTwo experts on mining industry governance explore environmental and social challenges around the mining of cobalt, a critical material in EV batteries, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. --- This is the third episode in our series that explores governance challenges surrounding the transition to clean energy. The International Energy Agency forecasts that electric vehicles could account for a third of the global new car market by the end of this decade. While the prospect of a grow...
Governing Net-Zero Emissions Targets
May 24, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBAs net zero carbon targets become commonplace, strong governance will be needed to ensure climate benefits. --- This is the second episode in a three-part series exploring governance challenges surrounding the transition to clean energy. In recent years a flood of net zero emissions targets have been set by companies, municipalities, and countries around the world. In fact, over-two thirds of the global economy is now covered by net zero targets that aim to zero out greenhouse gas emission...
Governing the Promise and Peril Of Emerging Climate Technologies
May 10, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBShuchi Talati, former chief of staff of the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management, discusses the need for strong governance to balance the potential benefits of carbon dioxide removal technologies with environmental and social risks. --- This episode is the first in a three-part series that will explore governance challenges surrounding the transition to clean energy. In early April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest assessment...
Nicholas Stern on the Role of Economics in Combatting Climate Change
April 26, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBEconomist Lord Nicholas Stern discusses why traditional economics fail to capture the magnitude of threat presented by climate change, and how the discipline must adapt. --- In 2006 climate economist Nicholas Stern published the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a report that offered the first systematic examination of the costs of addressing climate change and impacts on the global economy. The report marked a fundamental shift away from climate change being viewed primaril...
Energy And The War In Ukraine
April 13, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBAn expert in energy geopolitics discusses the war in Ukraine and its implications for European energy security and decarbonization. The episode was recorded in front of a live audience. --- Anna Mikulska, lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in European energy geopolitics, discusses the history of escalating energy tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the EU prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. In the episode, which ...
Will Clean Energy Be Equitable Energy?
March 22, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBAn energy activist highlights the opportunities, and challenges on the way to clean and equitable energy in the United States. --- The energy transition that is now underway in the United States holds the promise of delivering carbon free energy by the middle of this century. Yet often overlooked is a second critical opportunity to ensure that our future energy system delivers benefits, and shares burdens, much more equitably than has been true to date. Chandra Farley, chair of the Atlan...
Organized Labor Sees Promise in Transition to Clean Energy
March 10, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThe transition to a clean energy economy will generate millions of new jobs. Unions are working to ensure that those jobs provide a living wage. --- Dramatic changes are underway in the ways that the United States produces and consumes energy, with major implications for the country’s workforce. Along the Atlantic shore, states are racing to establish large offshore wind farms and the manufacturing supply chains to support them. Automakers in the middle of the country have committed to shi...
Climate Leader Germany Faces Challenging Exit from Coal
February 22, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBProPublica's Alec MacGillis discusses his recent New Yorker magazine article on Germany’s protracted struggle to wean itself off of coal. --- Germany has earned a reputation as a leader in the effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and today counts some of the highest rates of renewable energy in the world. Yet one of the continuing ironies of Germany’s energy transition is that the country remains very much dependent on coal-fired generation, which last year provided over a quarter of i...
How Big Is LNG Opportunity for U.S. Natural Gas Industry?
February 08, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBRising global LNG demand points to a strong future for U.S. LNG exports. But ESG concerns loom. --- Over the past decade, fracking technology has driven unprecedented growth in American natural gas production. Gas now powers 40% of U.S. electricity generation, and is also the most important fuel for home heating. And the U.S. is on track to become the world’s number one exporter of liquified natural gas in 2022, as Asia and Europe compete to pay top dollar for shipments of LNG. On the ...
What Makes Green Energy Finance Green?
January 25, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBA financier discusses the challenge of managing clean energy investment risk. --- The transition to a clean U.S. energy system, including carbon-free electricity by the middle of the next decade, will be fueled by massive investment from government and industry and through the provision of green finance from banks and investors. Brian Lehman, the Head of Green Economy Banking at JP Morgan Chase, discusses the challenge of defining clean and sustainable investment in an age where uniform s...
For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await
December 14, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBA climate economist discusses why efforts to cool earth’s climate through solar geoengineering appear all but inevitable, and considers the policy questions and political battles to come. --- There is no overarching, national debate into the merits of solar geoengineering, which is process to artificially cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight back into space. The technology sounds fanciful, the stuff of science fiction. Yet earlier this year the National Academies of Sciences issued an urgen...
U.S. Electricity Regulator Grapples with Barriers to a Clean Grid
November 30, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBWho will pay for the electric grid of the future? The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission explores options to incentivize and finance a vast transmission network to support clean energy. --- Much of the fossil fuel generation fleet in the United States will be replaced by renewable energy resources as the country’s electricity system is decarbonized. Yet it remains unclear how the vast network of high-voltage transmission lines needed to connect clean energy resources will be planned and ...
China's Energy and Climate Balancing Act
November 16, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBChina’s leadership must navigate conflicting agendas, and threats to domestic political stability, as it seeks to rein in global warming emissions. --- China has adopted a relatively low profile of late when it comes to addressing climate change. At the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the most notable headline concerning China may in fact have been the failure of its President, Chi Jinping, to attend or address the conference directly. The Chinese leader’s absence was remar...
Massive Shift Toward Solar Power Begins In Largest U.S. Electricity Market
November 02, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBAn unprecedented backlog of clean energy projects is in line to join PJM Interconnection, an electricity market serving one in five Americans. --- PJM Interconnection, the largest wholesale electricity market in the U.S., is on the verge of going solar in a big way. The market, which encompasses 13 states from the mid-Atlantic shore, through fossil fuel-rich Pennsylvania and Ohio and as far West as Illinois, has a massive backlog of clean energy projects of all types that are waiting to be...
Who Pays the Price for Stranded Energy Assets?
October 19, 2021 04:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBA climate economist looks at the impact that the stranding of fossil fuel assets may have on communities, and at policies that might mitigate economic hardship. --- As pressure builds to decarbonize the global energy system, much of today’s energy infrastructure is becoming obsolete. Over the past decade more than half of the coal fired power plants in the United States have closed as coal generation has been replaced by natural gas and renewables, while coal plants elsewhere, such as in C...
What Stands Between Louisiana and a Resilient Electric Grid?
October 05, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBHurricane Ida was the most recent storm to wreak havoc on Louisiana’s electric grid. A legal expert discusses the struggle to provide resilient power in the state as weather and climate risks grow. --- The year 2021 has seen an unprecedented number of large-scale electric grid failures driven by extreme weather. Over the winter, severe cold led to the collapse of Texas’ electricity system, while in California an aging electric grid has sparked wildfires in a state that has endured two dec...
Can Americans Afford to Fully Electrify Their Homes?
September 21, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBA leading energy economist explores the cost of electrifying home heating, the top source of energy demand and carbon emissions in American homes. --- Residential homes account for one fifth of America’s energy consumption, with the largest part of that consumption going toward home heating. In the U.S., more homes are heated with natural gas than any other fuel, a fact that has drawn the attention of policymakers as momentum builds to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Recently, a number o...
Rare Earth Elements Raise Environmental, Economic Risks for Clean Energy
July 27, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBRare earth elements are essential to many clean energy technologies, yet their production can bring severe environmental impacts. A new report grapples with rare earths' environmental negatives and efforts to diversify supply beyond China. —- In 2010 China withheld shipment of rare earth elements to Japan during a territorial dispute between the two countries. Rare earths, a grouping of 17 difficult to mine elements, are essential in the manufacture of goods such as cell phones and compute...
As Climate Concerns Rise, What Role Will Natural Gas Play?
July 13, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThe head of the International Energy Agency’s gas division discusses the outlook for natural gas as global efforts to address carbon emissions intensify. --- Natural gas may be the most controversial of all fossil fuels. It has been heralded as a lower carbon alternative to coal as a fuel for electricity generation. At the same time, natural gas-fired generators have proven themselves to be a reliable backup for intermittent wind and solar power, and gas is viewed as an enabler of an incre...
Why Is it So Hard to Build the Electric Grid of the Future?
June 29, 2021 04:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBAmerica’s electric grid is ill-equipped to enable the low carbon energy system of the future. A grid policy expert explores the policy and economic changes that will be needed to bring the grid up to date. --- There is little doubt that the electricity system of the future will look very different from the system that we have today. In the U.S., a growing number of states and the federal government have set 100% clean energy goals for the middle of this century or earlier. The growing de...
Can the FERC Be Made Accountable to Communities and the Environment?
June 15, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBCongress has directed the nation’s regulator for natural gas and electricity infrastructure to be more responsive to community and environmental concerns. Will FERC’s new Office of Public Participation deliver on the promise of public inclusion? --- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission increasingly finds itself at the center of controversy as momentum in the United States builds for a cleaner and more sustainable energy system. As the regulator of the nation’s natural gas and electri...
Coal Communities Seek Their Post-Coal Future
June 01, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBHeidi Binko, Executive Director of the Just Transition Fund, discusses the challenges coal communities face in adapting to a post-coal future, and strategies for economic transition. --- Over the past decade the number of workers directly employed in the U.S. coal industry has fallen by half, as coal has been replaced by cheaper sources of energy such as natural gas and renewable power. From the Appalachian mountains in the East, to the Powder River Basin and tribal communities in the West...
Powering Women’s Economic Development Through Equal Access to Energy
May 18, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBSheila Oparaocha of the International Network on Gender and Sustainability discusses the global effort to ensure gender equality in energy access, as an essential foundation for economic development and public health. --- One billion people around the world lack access to electricity, and three times as many do not have access to fuel and appliances that allow for clean and safe cooking inside the home. The lack of clean and reliable energy is a major barrier to economic development and ...
The Potential, and Risks, of Nature-Based Climate Solutions
May 04, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBNature-based climate solutions can play a major role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. But biodiversity risks, and community impacts, loom large. --- Technology often seems to be the focus when conversation turns to solutions to address climate change. Clean energy, carbon capture and even geoengineering dominate headlines and attract the attention of climate-focused investors. When it comes to protecting coastal communities, infrastructure projects like sea walls and raised roa...
Combating Energy Poverty in the U.S.
April 20, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBOne-third of American households struggle to afford basic energy needs. The University of Michigan’s Tony Reames explores the role of policy in overcoming energy poverty. --- Energy justice and poverty have come to the forefront of public dialogue, and are part of long-standing inequities that continue to persist in the United States. In this country, one-third of households struggle pay for their basic energy needs. In response, federal and state agencies have turned increasing attention to...
How Big A Threat Is The Supreme Court To Biden’s Climate Agenda?
April 06, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBPresident Biden will rely upon regulatory agencies like the EPA to push his ambitious clean energy and climate agenda. Yet increasingly conservative courts could stand in the way of Biden’s plans. --- President Joe Biden has set an ambitious clean energy and environmental agenda that includes a $2 trillion infrastructure and climate plan, and a renewed commitment to the Paris Climate agreement. To achieve his climate goals, Biden is likely to rely on regulatory agencies, such as the EPA, to ...