Is climate progress doomed?

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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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0:55.5	How bad will a Trump presidency be for the climate?
0:59.7	There's a lot to be hopeful about.
1:02.3	What gives you that hope?
1:05.3	Hi, I'm John Glyn Hill, and we get a lot of calls to the Explain It to Me hotline.
1:11.0	And quite a few have been from listeners wondering, what's going on with climate change?
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