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America’s Trillion-Dollar Climate Infrastructure Play

America’s Trillion-Dollar Climate Infrastructure Play

FromThe Energy Gang


America’s Trillion-Dollar Climate Infrastructure Play

FromThe Energy Gang

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Mar 25, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, the nuts and bolts of climate policy: infrastructure.With a $2 trillion covid relief package under his belt, Biden looks to harness another $3 trillion on building clean energy, hardening the electric grid, installing electric car chargers, and updating roads and bridges.We’ll game out what’s needed and what’s possible.Then: is this the moment for the black climate agenda? And if so, what are the priorities?Finally, how will pressure campaigns over new fossil fuel infrastructure play out in the next four years? And what lessons have we learned from previous fights over the last decade?The gang this week: Katherine Hamilton and Stephen Lacey are joined by climate strategist Tamara Toles O’Laughlin.Resources:New York Times: Biden’s Biden’s Recovery Plan Bets Big on Clean EnergyE&E News: How the Infrastructure Bill Might Tackle Climate ChangeRedfin Study: Redlined Communities Face Greater Flood RiskCNN: A New Pipeline Battle Fires Up in MinnesotaThis podcast is brought to you by Sungrow, a leading provider of PV inverter solutions around the world. Sungrow has delivered more than 10 gigawatts of inverters to the Americas alone — and 120 gigawatts in total across the globe. Learn more about Sungrow’s cutting-edge solar projects.This podcast is also brought to you by CPower. CPower’s latest book, Demand-Side Energy Management in the Time of COVID, takes a peek into eight of the biggest commercial industries in North America and reveals key energy management strategies that successful organizations executed during the wildest year of the young century. Download it here.
Released:
Mar 25, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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