Climate Policy and the Two Parties: The Search for Common Ground

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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CPF Director Bob Shrum joins former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and former U.S. Representative Garret Graves (R-LA) for a discussion on the state of climate policy under the Trump administration and how Democrats and Republicans can cooperate to tackle climate change issues. This conversation is part of the Climate Forward conference in partnership with the USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let's Find Common Ground from the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California's Dornside College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
0:15.4	I'm Bob Shrum, director of the center. And I'm Republican Mike Murphy, co-director of the Center. Our podcast brings together America's leading politicians,
0:25.2	strategists, journalists, and academics from across the political spectrum for in-depth
0:30.4	discussions where we respect each other and we respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these
0:36.5	conversations.
0:47.3	I'm honored to introduce our two panelists for this session, and I want to express our gratitude to them for joining us today. In the Senate, Barbara Boxer chaired the Senate Environment Committee.
0:53.7	It was an early and powerful voice on a range of issues
0:57.4	from blocking oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
1:01.4	to Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act,
1:06.4	which was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
1:11.6	She became a prophetic and effective voice on the defining environmental challenges of our time.
1:18.7	She's also been a fellow at the Center for the Political Future,
1:22.5	and she's a member of our Board of Councilors.
1:25.1	For 10 years, Garrett Graves represented Louisiana's sixth congressional
1:29.9	district in the House of Representatives. Before that, he was staff director for the Committee on
1:35.7	Global Climate Change and Impacts. He chaired the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
1:41.7	It was a member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
1:45.5	In the House, he worked to build an environmental platform Republicans could rally around,
1:51.6	and he made environmental issues in climate a major focus on the committees he both chaired
1:57.0	and served on. So the three of us will have a conversation for about 45 minutes and then
2:03.4	open this up to questions from the audience. So let me start with this. We have moved from an
2:10.3	administration dedicated to addressing climate change to one that at least seems hostile to the effort.
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