Climate 2020

The most detailed climate plan in U.S. history

Oct 8, 2020

In this special episode, we talk to Florida Democrat Kathy Castor, who chairs the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in the House of Representatives.

Her committee issued a massive, 547-page blueprint in July. It outlines the ways in which the next Congress can address the climate crisis and the...

The growing power of the sub-national climate movement in America, with WWF U.S. climate program director Elan Strait

Sep 24, 2020

President Trump has vowed to remove the United States from the historic Paris climate agreement, which every nation on Earth has now signed onto. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said one of his first acts as president, should he win, will be to keep America in that accord.

In this special episode of...

BONUS EPISODE: WITH COVID, RACE, AND AN ECONOMIC CRISIS, IS CLIMATE STILL AN ISSUE?

Jul 30, 2020

In this Climate One episode, our co-host Jeff Nesbit joins podcast host Greg Dalton, Vanessa Hauc of Telemundo, and Nathaniel Stinnett of the Environmental Voter Project to explore the continuing relevance of climate to the November election.

How Green Dems Take Back Washington w/ Gina McCarthy

Jun 26, 2020

When Gina McCarthy left her post as Obama’s EPA Administrator, she was ready to leave the sometimes grueling world of Washington politics behind. She went into academia. In 2018, she founded the Harvard Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE).

But after observing Trump’s chaotic first term...

Making The Climate Movement Anti-Racist w/ Dr. Robert Bullard

Jun 18, 2020

Sociologist and Environmental Justice Activist Dr. Robert Bullard came of age during the Civil Rights Movement. Back then, the conversation around how racism and environmentalism intersected hadn’t gained much traction.

But Dr. Bullard began to make those connections through his research. He began to notice in cities...