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Murray Energy, A Major Trump Ally, Goes Bankrupt
Trump on Earth - November 14, 2019 22:21 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPresident Trump came into office promising to save coal and coal jobs. Instead, the industry has continued to slide. The question now is--how far will it go? The coal industry once employed hundreds of thousands of workers. Now, it's just about 50,000. And eight coal companies have declared ba...
One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Trump on Earth - November 08, 2019 16:03 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsWildfires have once again spread across California...and millions of residents have been living without power for weeks. The deliberate blackouts by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, or PG&E, are an attempt to prevent power lines from starting new fires, a real possibility in dry and windy c...
Rick Perry Made Me Do It
Trump on Earth - October 17, 2019 14:21 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPresident Trump says a key phone call at the center of the Ukraine scandal was Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s idea. But Perry asserts that in his conversations with Trump, “not once, as God as my witness, not once was a Biden name ever mentioned." On this episode we connect the dots between Pe...
Who's Watching the Hogs?
Trump on Earth - October 09, 2019 20:22 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsLast month, the USDA quietly issued a new rule changing meat inspection standards for pork. Not only would the new rule mean slaughter houses could run their processing lines as fast as they want, it would also change who does the inspecting, giving the pork producers themselves a bigger role i...
Trump and the Philosophy of Climate Denial
Trump on Earth - September 26, 2019 03:19 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsHow do you change the minds of climate deniers and people -- say the President -- who doubt the scientific process in general? We ask a philosopher of science for some answers. Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a Lect...
We Watched All Seven Hours of the Climate Town Hall. Here's What You Should Know.
Trump on Earth - September 11, 2019 19:35 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsLast time round, climate change got a measly five minutes and 27 seconds of airtime in the debates. During this primary season, it got seven hours in one night alone. CNN’s recent town hall provided each of the 10 candidates an opportunity to lay out their plan to deal with climate change. It wa...
'This is no longer about the science. This is somebody's ideology.'
Trump on Earth - August 30, 2019 03:20 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsA top climate scientist resigned from the Agriculture Department this month. Lewis Ziska says the USDA buried his research. He's one in a line of researchers who've left the federal government because they claim the administration is censoring climate science.
The Nuclear Dilemma
Trump on Earth - August 14, 2019 18:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsToday, nuclear plants provide 20% of US power generation. But according to a report last year by the non-profit Union of Concerned Scientists, of the 99 nuclear reactors nationwide, owners have shut down six in recent years. Seven more are slated for retirement. In the age of climate change, the...
California v. Trump
Trump on Earth - July 31, 2019 15:36 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThe Trump administration has rolled back more than 80 environmental regulations but some states are fighting back. No state has been more active in the resistance against Trump's environmental deregulations than California. Case in point: last week, news broke that four of the world’s biggest...
Fact Check: Trump’s Environmental Speech
Trump on Earth - July 19, 2019 21:11 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsSurrounding by several members of his cabinet, President Trump recently gave a speech at the White House touting his own environmental record. Even though he’s tried to rolled back environmental regulations at a record pace, Trump painted a picture of a country where economic growth has occurred...
So Long, Clean Power Plan. It Was Nice Knowing You.
Trump on Earth - June 27, 2019 17:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThe Trump administration recently rolled out the affordable clean energy (ACE) rule. Critics say it basically does nothing to prevent climate change at a time when global warming is turning into an existential crisis. Our guest is Jody Freeman, a professor at Harvard Law School and founder of th...
Will Climate Change Matter in 2020?
Trump on Earth - May 23, 2019 03:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThere wasn't a single question about global warming in the 2016 presidential debates. Will 2020 be different? There are 23 Democrats vying for their party's nomination. Who has a plan to fight climate change (and who doesn't)? And what will President Trump's eventual Democratic challenger say ...
Climate change's big question: Can we get to zero carbon?
Trump on Earth - May 05, 2019 18:33 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsRecent reports stress the urgency of reducing carbon emissions to check the worst effects of climate change. On this episode we listen in as some very knowledgable experts wade into the possibilities, obstacles and potential solutions. The panelists: Paulina Jaramillo, associate professor of e...
That Time We Could Have Stopped Climate Change. . .
Trump on Earth - April 17, 2019 22:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsForty years ago, the U.S. government began to take climate change seriously and for a short time period, politicians from both parties endorsed taking actions to avert what was by then understood to be an existential problem for humanity. So what happened? And what can we learn from the decade w...
An Explosion in Drilling on Public Lands Driven by 'Energy Dominance'
Trump on Earth - April 04, 2019 00:41 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPresident Trump's push to have oil and gas drilling on public lands has hit some snags lately. A federal court recently halted leasing on 300,000 acres of public land in Wyoming after the court ruled the administration hadn't adequately considered climate change on its decision to lease the land...
The Green New Deal: Two Takes
Trump on Earth - March 20, 2019 19:44 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsNow that a proposal is on the table, some see it as a chance to create jobs and equalize the economy. But critics say it should laser focus on climate action.
The Pollution Police
Trump on Earth - February 20, 2019 16:15 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsWhat happens when environmental laws and rules aren't enforced? When the environmental cops just aren't on the beat? Under Trump, EPA inspections have fallen to a 10-year low. On this episode, we hear from Juliet Eilperin who has covered this story for The Washington Post. Why does the EPA ...
A Surge of Black Lung Disease in Appalachia
Trump on Earth - February 08, 2019 15:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThis week we're bringing you a interview with NPR's Howard Berkes about the proliferation of black lung disease among coal miners in Appalachia. It comes from our sister podcast called Energy Explained, produced by the public radio collaboration StateImpact Pennsylvania The interview covers not...
Green New Deal. You've Heard the Phrase. Here's What it Means.
Trump on Earth - January 24, 2019 01:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsIf there were a billboard top 100 for policy ideas, the Green New Deal would be at the top of the charts for several weeks running. It’s not a policy, or a bill--more like aspirations that combine swift action on climate change with broad social and economic reforms. Alexander Kaufman has been c...
Zinke's Out. What's the Damage to Public Lands?
Trump on Earth - January 10, 2019 21:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThe federal government is the nation's largest landowner, managing 500 million acres under the Department of the Interior. And while some expect that America's public lands are managed for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, others say the Trump administration has allowed interests like ene...
As the World Burns
Trump on Earth - January 07, 2019 01:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThree years ago, most of the world’s nations signed onto the Paris Climate Agreement, which committed countries to do their best to avert a climate catastrophe. Well, things are different now. President Donald Trump has vowed to take the U.S. out of the deal, but the vast majority of countries a...
What's at Stake Under the New Trump Water Rule
Trump on Earth - December 14, 2018 15:59 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsWhen President Trump started his tenure he promised to repeal something called the ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule. And this week he made good on that promise. The revised definition of “Waters of the United States” eliminates protections for half of the nations wetlands and nearly a fifth of stream...
America Voted. How did the Environment Fare?
Trump on Earth - November 09, 2018 15:19 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPresident Donald Trump’s performance and policies were front and center in many races across the country--whether candidates were for or against them--and the environment was on the ballot, too...in some cases, literally. A least nine states had ballot initiatives focused on environmental issues...
Environmentalists Could Change Election Outcomes. They Just Need to Vote.
Trump on Earth - October 31, 2018 14:59 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsHistorically, polls have shown that environmentalists are terrible at voting. In the 2014 midterm election, more than 15 million environmentalists didn't show up on Election Day. And to be clear, all of them were already registered and already committed to environmental issues. So why are they s...
Inside the Industry Takeover at the EPA
Trump on Earth - October 17, 2018 14:59 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPresident Trump says he'll look into a recent UN Climate Change report that predicted we have 12 years to drastically lower our carbon footprint or else the world will witness catastrophic impacts of climate change. He did this as his EPA is actively scaling back Obama-era regulations that would...
Climate Change: How Bad Can it Be?
Trump on Earth - October 10, 2018 19:21 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsYou’ve probably heard by now that, according to a new UN report, the world has just over a decade to get climate change under control before it’s too late. And the report says we need a profound transformation to get there. The report has got us thinking about an episode we aired last year abo...
Bonus Episode: Michael Mann’s Journey Through the Climate Wars
Trump on Earth - October 04, 2018 21:27 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsToday we're bring you an episode of a podcast we've been enjoying lately. Democracy Works, produced by Penn State's McCourtney Institute for Democracy, aims to rise above the daily news grind and take a broader look at issues impacting democracy — which can be just about anything. If you’re look...
Why The Trump Resistance Keeps Winning in Court
Trump on Earth - September 19, 2018 23:20 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsThis administration is hell bent on dismantling environmental and human health protections, but judges are pushing back on Trump's deregulatory agenda in sometimes rapid fire succession.
Faith in the People's Climate Movement
Trump on Earth - September 06, 2018 20:27 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPeople of faith are joining the ranks of the People Climate Movement, which takes to the streets this weekend demanding action. One religious leader tells us why climate change is becoming a top priority. Fletcher Harper is an Episcopal priest and the executive director of GreenFaith, a member...
How the UK Won its War on Coal
Trump on Earth - August 09, 2018 13:56 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsCoal was the engine of the Industrial Revolution and employed nearly 1.2 million people in Britain at its height. But the UK has gone more than 1,000 hours without using coal to generate electricity this year - the longest streak since Thomas Edison opened the country’s first coal power station ...
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