Polluting and Providing: The Dirty Energy Dilemma

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But for many of those communities the fossil fuel industry is also a source of jobs, tax dollars, and cheap energy. “It makes it difficult for anyone to speak out against the hand that’s feeding them,” says Ivan Penn, Alternative Energy Reporter for the New York Times. “The NAACP would typically support the positions of the utility companies.” So is the industry an example of community leadership, manipulative greenwashing — or something in between? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Speakers: Derrick Hollie, President, Reaching America Jacqueline Patterson, Director, NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program Ivan Penn, Alternative Energy Reporter, The New York Times Vien Truong, Climate Justice Director, Tom Steyer PAC Additional Speaker: Andres Soto, Richmond Community Organizer, Communities for a Better Environment This program was recorded via video on August 11, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Are fossil fuel companies community leaders, manipulative greenwashers, or a mix of both. Climate One conversations
0:39.0	feature energy companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the
0:44.2	scary aspects of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. For many black and brown neighborhoods,
0:50.4	some of the biggest providers of jobs, tax dollars, and energy are also the biggest polluters.
0:55.8	We started the Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition, so that we really make sure that we are
1:02.5	centering the voices of people who are standing to lose their livelihoods in this transition.
1:09.2	Jackie Patterson is Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP.
1:13.6	She and many others are aware of how the necessary transition from fossil fuels to clean energy
1:18.6	can leave behind many communities of color.
1:21.6	But jobs in power plants and refineries pay well.
1:24.6	What does it look like to make sure that you continue to have the benefits you need,
1:31.9	the pension that you had, and making sure that you have the safety net for your family?
1:36.6	Bintrong is Director of Climate Justice for the Political Action Committee of former presidential candidate Tom Steyer. She's striving to make sure that jobs in the clean energy economy
1:41.5	are able to attract workers accustomed to salaries offered by oil and gas companies.
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