Comparing Presidential Candidates on Climate and Cleantech

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🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It may be a couple election cycles late, but we’re finally getting a wave of climate plans from presidential candidates. The issue is now front and center in the Democratic primaries.

We’ve spent the last week collecting the plans from leading candidates, surveying the stances of the rest of the field, and monitoring the reactions. We’ll sort through them in this week’s Energy Gang episode.

In the first half of the show, we’ll compare and contrast the unique plans from Elizabeth Warren, Jay Inslee, Beto O’Rourke, Michael Bennet and John Delaney. What is unique about each candidate’s proposal?

Then, we’ll tackle the rest of the field in the second half of the episode. Most of them are either using the Green New Deal as a fallback, or using it as a foil. We will take an account of how that short-but-influential congressional resolution — and the activism behind it — is having an impact on the presidential campaign.

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0:00.0	I have a really sad thing to admit for the first time in an election cycle I don't know every
0:06.1	candidate in the primary.
0:08.1	That's okay because there are almost 250 people who have registered to run for the Democratic primary.
0:16.4	How is it that I know more about performance artists slash Libertarian candidate
0:20.4	Vermin Supreme and I don't really know anything about Montana
0:23.1	governor Steve Bullock or the spiritual guru Marian Williamson. Well I know a lot
0:28.8	about Marion Williamson because my dad is obsessed with her books but I don't think she'd make a great president.
0:34.4	Well, coming up, we've sorted through the energy and climate plans of the leading Dems
0:38.0	running for president. We're going to help you sort through the most prominent and the most obscure. First, whatever plan we
0:45.5	ultimately get, electrified transportation fleets are going to be a major
0:48.7	piece of the solution. And the electric revolution, it can't happen with single drivers alone.
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1:34.3	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, weekly debates and discussions about the fast changing world of energy.
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