Biden's Trillion-Dollar Climate Ambitions
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden just released a plan to address climate change on a trillion-dollar scale. Along with focusing on rapid deployment of renewables, it also devotes resources to environmental justice, sustainable housing, clean transportation, and networking.
What would it mean? And who's informing the ideas? We’ll dig in.
Then Facebook's disinformation problem. We look at why Facebook is rejecting the conclusions of its fact-checkers on some articles about climate change. We’re joined by Emily Atkin, climate journalist and founder of the newsletter Heated, who dug up some of the documents showing who’s making these decisions at Facebook.
Then, U.S. attorneys in Ohio and Illinois have been busy investigating racketeering and bribery by high-ranking public officials who are doing the bidding of utility companies. In Ohio, the speaker of the House is arrested and in Illinois a utility is put on probation. There’s a common thread, and we tease it out.
Recommended reading:
- Biden Campaign: Climate Plan
- Biden Campaign: Environmental Justice Commitments
- GTM: Biden Pledges $2T in Clean Energy and Infrastructure Spending
- Heated: Facebook Creates Fact-Checking Exemption for Climate Deniers
- NYT: How Facebook Handles Climate Disinformation
- WaPo: GOP Ohio House speaker Arrested in Connection to $60 million Bribery Scheme
- Axios: Ohio House speaker charged in $60 million bribery investigation
- GTM: ComEd Agrees to $200M Fine on Federal Bribery Charge
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| 1:04.0 | Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang. Weekly debates and discussions about the fast-changing world of energy. I'm Stephen Lacey. I'm a contributing editor at |
| 1:24.2 | GTM. Welcome to the show. Imagine doubling all the renewable energy production in the |
| 1:29.1 | whole country, something that's taken decades to build out. Imagine spending five times as much every year as we do currently on clean energy. |
| 1:37.0 | That's the scale we're talking about in the $2 trillion climate and environmental justice plans released by Joe Biden. |
| 1:42.0 | So what would the plans mean? justice plans released by Joe Biden. |
| 1:43.0 | So what would the plans mean? |
| 1:45.0 | We're going to find out. |
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