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Energy Gang

The Dismantling of EPA

Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

Tech News, Environment, Sustainability, Innovation, Renewable Energy, Technology, Alternative Energy, Energy, News, Cleantech, Wind Energy, Business, Climate Change, Solar Energy

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What's it like inside the Environmental Protection Agency as the Trump Administration dismantles it from the top down?

This week, ProPublica’s Talia Buford joins us on The Energy Gang to talk about how Scott Pruitt’s aggressive regulatory rollback agenda is changing the agency’s relationship to science, to industry, and to the staffers who've worked there for decades. An abandoned rule on effluent from power plants tells us a lot about Pruitt's approach to disassembling the EPA.

Then, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled his latest energy vision, which features big targets for offshore wind and energy storage. Is New York suddenly the country’s hottest storage market?

And finally, we’ll wrap up with a glance at two once-mighty companies in solar that are re-emerging after tough times: BP Solar and SunEdison. 

The podcast is also brought to you by CPower Energy Management. Find out more about CPower's demand-side energy management solutions. 

Recommended reading:

  • ProPublica: What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA
  • GTM: Andrew Cuomo Throws Political Weight Behind Offshore Wind and Energy Storage
  • GTM: SunEdison Emerges From Bankruptcy a Shadow of Its Former Self
  • GTM: BP Jumps Back Into Solar With a $200 Million Investment in Europe’s Biggest Project Developer


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0:48.8

From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy, clean tech and the environment.

0:58.0

I'm Stephen Lacy in Boston. Bombogenesis, explosive cyclogenesis, a weather bomb.

1:09.8

I am of course talking about the low pressure winter storm that is raging outside my window right now as we record.

1:15.2

But those terms sound like a pretty good way to describe the political weather system

1:18.7

gripping Washington DC and one of them is swirling right on top of the Environmental Protection Agency.

1:25.0

This week, what it's like inside the storm at the EPA.

1:29.0

ProPublica's to Leah Bueford joins us to talk about how Scott Pruitt's aggressive regulatory rollback agenda

1:34.7

is changing the agency's relationship to science.

1:38.4

Then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled his latest energy vision.

1:41.8

It's particularly big for offshore wind and

1:43.6

energy storage is New York suddenly the country's hottest storage market and

1:47.5

finally we'll wrap up with a glance at two companies that Jigger is intimately

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