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Today, Explained

Is climate progress doomed?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Many worry that the clean energy transition will be derailed by the Trump administration. But there's reason to believe otherwise. Listen to Explain It to Me ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Call in your question at 1-800-618-8545. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Melissa Hirsch and engineered by Matthew Billy. Photo of wind turbines in a storm in western Iowa by Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.8

How bad will a Trump president be for the climate?

0:52.2

There's a lot to be hopeful about what gives you that hope.

0:57.8

Hi, I'm John Glyn Hill, and we get a lot of calls to the Explain It to Me hotline.

1:03.5

And quite a few have been from listeners wondering, what's going on with climate change?

1:09.7

We know that President Donald Trump is a climate skeptic,

1:13.1

and he's been doing a lot in his three months back in office to slow down the climate progress

1:17.8

that's been made. So where does that leave us now? To answer this question, I brought in a colleague,

1:24.3

someone whose job it is to think about the changing climate and who knows how to

1:28.6

cover it in a way that doesn't make us want to throw up our hands and despair.

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