Presenting: Outside/In

How to Save a Planet

Gimlet

Science, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's one of the most important Supreme Court cases you may never have heard of: Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. The ruling held that the U.S. government could regulate greenhouse gases. Today we’re sharing the wild backstory of this critical Supreme Court case, from a podcast we love,“Outside/In,” from New Hampshire Public Radio. If you don’t believe a legal case in all its intimate details can be riveting, take a listen. And be sure to check out all the other great episodes from Outside/In. We'll be back next week with a new episode of How to Save a Planet. In the meantime, check out our Calls to Action archive here for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. How to Save a Planet is reported and produced by Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz and Anna Ladd. Our intern is Ayo Oti. Our senior producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet.
0:03.8	I'm Dr. Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson.
0:06.2	And I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the show where we talk about what we need to do to
0:09.9	address climate change and how to make those things happen.
0:15.5	You've been running around in climate circles much longer than I have.
0:28.8	Since approximately 1998, when I started college as a major in environmental science
0:33.6	and public policy, I'm a newbie, a new kid on the block.
0:39.4	Wait, do you have, like, new kid on the block level dance moves?
0:43.1	Can you correct me?
0:44.1	Can you correct a boy band dance to the How to Save a Planet theme song?
0:50.2	I haven't told anybody on the team yet, but I'm so excited for whatever you're about
0:54.0	to say.
0:55.0	Have you ever heard of a little dance called The Running Man?
0:58.7	I'm really concerned that you're going to pretend you're in bed today.
1:02.4	No, but I do know how to do it.
1:05.5	Wait, is this like your secret superpower that you can help use to help save the climate?
1:09.4	You go ahead.
1:10.4	I don't know.
1:11.4	Do you want me to do it, though?
1:12.4	Ready?
1:13.4	I'm going to do it on Zoom.
1:14.4	If you want.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gimlet, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gimlet and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.