The Trump-Branded Version of the Clean Power Plan
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week: we examine the Trump alternative to the Clean Power Plan, look at the gap between red and blue states on climate change, and review the presidential debates.
Up first: how Trump's EPA is replacing Obama's major climate rule.
Then, the red-blue climate divide. States are putting ambitious new climate plans in place. But they’re almost all in states dominated by democrats -- and the new EPA power plant rule only makes that gap bigger. What are the long-term economic consequences for the red states failing to change?
Finally, we got 15 minutes of climate talk in the first two Democratic presidential debates. Does this yet again prove why we need a climate-only debate?
Recommended reading:
- Yale Climate Connections: The Trump EPA Strategy to Undo the Clean Power Plan
- New York Times: Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines
- The Guardian: A Climate-Themed Debate? The Democrats Owe It to Voters
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| 0:00.0 | The Energy Gang is brought to you by Sungrow. Sungrow is the leading solar inverter supplier by volume in the world and is now a leading supplier across the Americas. |
| 0:10.0 | With the world's most powerful 250 kilowatt 1500 volt string inverter, Sungrow is providing disruptive technology for utility scale projects. |
| 0:19.0 | Find out more at Sungrow Power.com. |
| 0:23.0 | From Green Tech Media, this is the energy gang, weekly debates and discussions on the fast-changing |
| 0:34.2 | world of energy. I'm Stephen Lacey a contributing editor at GTM. Welcome. |
| 0:39.4 | This week the Trump alternative to Obama's Clean Power Plan. Rather than repeal the rule, the EPA is just |
| 0:44.4 | making it as weak as possible. Then, the red-blue climate divide, states are putting in |
| 0:49.5 | place ambitious new climate plans, but they're almost all in states dominated by Democrats, and the new EPA power |
| 0:55.7 | plant rule only makes that gap bigger. |
| 0:58.6 | What are the long-term economic consequences for the red states failing to change. |
| 1:03.0 | Finally, we got about 15 minutes of climate talk in the first two Democratic presidential |
| 1:06.8 | debates. |
| 1:07.8 | Does this yet again prove why we need a climate-only debate? |
| 1:11.7 | We will debate. My fellow moderators are Catherine |
| 1:14.3 | Hamilton and Jigger Shaw. Catherine Hamilton is over there in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:18.0 | She is the chair of 38 North Solutions. Good morning. I saw you live tweeting those debates. |
| 1:24.0 | I was. |
| 1:25.0 | I was so excited when they started talking about climate. |
| 1:28.0 | I really woke up and got my fingers ready. |
| 1:30.0 | Jiggershaw is the president of Generate Capital. |
| 1:33.2 | Did you watch both debates? |
| 1:34.5 | Oh, hell no. |
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