Fast, Fair and Clean: The New Energy Transition

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🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hopes and expectations are high for President Biden’s first weeks in office. His recovery plans promise to take on COVID-19, a battered economy, and a rapid clean energy transition in a way that doesn’t leave communities behind. But Navajo Nation, which until recently was home to the largest coal-fired power plant in the U.S., has been left out of economic and energy plans for a long time. “The community that has been the provider is the one that has the most homes that don't have access to electricity,” notes Wahleah Johns, Co-Founder and Director of Native Renewables. Can the incoming administration improve energy access for all Americans while phasing out fossil fuels? Guests Loretta Lynch, Former President, California Public Utilities Commission Wahleah Johns, Co-Founder & Director, Native Renewables Paula Glover, President, Alliance to Save Energy; former President and CEO, American Association of Blacks in Energy Jeremiah Baumann, Director of Federal Policy, Energy Innovation Visit our website for more information on today's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	What will it take for a rapid transition to clean energy that doesn't leave communities behind?
0:36.6	Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency,
0:40.9	the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary.
0:44.5	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:45.9	Here we go!
0:47.1	Oh, no!
0:47.7	Oh!
0:53.1	In December 2020, the three massive smokestacks at the largest coal-fired power plant in the West,
0:59.6	the Navajo generating station in Arizona, were demolished. The plant had employed about 750 people,
1:06.2	nearly all Navajo and Hopi, before going dark in 2019. We've lived in those shadows of those towers,
1:14.1	and the shadows were higher asthma rates, degradation of water quality, and a lot of people
1:21.3	not benefiting. Wahela Johns is co-founder and director of native renewables, which provides power to
1:27.2	homes on the Navajo and Hopi
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