GGP: Energy & Environment Policy Under Trump
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This is an episode Center on Global Energy Policy’s Columbia Energy Exchange podcast series.
From a promise to bring coal jobs back, to the decision to leave the Paris Agreement, to a budget proposal that cuts funding to environmental and climate programs across government agencies, U.S. climate and environment policy is facing significant shifts following the election of Donald Trump. The Environmental Protection Agency in particular finds itself a target of the new Administration's efforts to roll back regulations that it claims stymie economic growth.
To gauge what some of these shifts will mean, host Jason Bordoff speaks with Carol Browner, the longest serving United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, on the latest episode of the Columbia Energy Exchange. Carol is currently Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group and a distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. She chairs the Board of the League of Conservation Voters, serves on the Board of Directors for Bunge Limited, the Global Oceans Commission, and on Opower’s Advisory Board. Previously, she served as Assistant to President Obama and Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy and as Secretary of Environmental Regulation in Florida.
- Among many topics Carol and Jason discuss, several include:
- How the Trump Administration's proposed budget cuts will impact EPA
- The effects of the Trump Administration's agenda on climate change progress
- The role of local and state governments to combat climate change
- The outlook for fuel economy standards in the United States
- Nuclear energy's role in a low carbon transition
The statements, opinions and data contained in the content published in Global Gas Perspectives are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s) of Natural Gas World.