Trump: Destroyer of Earth. With leading climate reporter, Elizabeth Kolbert
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Bill talks with Elizabeth Kolbert, a leading environmental journalist from The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, about the significant rollbacks in environmental regulations under Donald Trump's administration. They discuss how Trump's policies have reversed progress made in combating climate change and hindered the growth of green energy projects like offshore wind, leading to job losses and environmental degradation. Kolbert elaborates on the global and long-term impacts of such policies and the urgency of addressing climate change. The conversation also touches on international perspectives and America's credibility on the world stage in combatting climate change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:11.1 | You know, it's hard to keep track of all the damage Donald Trump has already done in just eight months. |
| 0:17.2 | Last week, we talked about the way he's destroyed the Justice Department, turning it into his own private police force to go after his political opponents. |
| 0:26.0 | This week, we focus on the environment where Donald Trump has systematically moved to kill almost every regulation adopted since Richard Nixon to protect clean air and clean water, where he's overturned |
| 0:40.3 | all the progress made under President's Obama and Biden in fighting climate change, and where he's |
| 0:45.8 | shut down new projects creating thousands of new green jobs, even in red states. Only eight months |
| 0:53.9 | in, and Donald Trump's already racked up the worst environmental record of any president. |
| 0:59.8 | So how bad is it and can we ever recover? Two of many questions for today's guest, Elizabeth Colbert, |
| 1:07.5 | America's leading environmental journalist, staff writer for the New Yorker, and author of many books on the environment, including The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. |
| 1:19.6 | Elizabeth Colbert, it's a real honor to welcome you to the Bill Press Pod. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:24.9 | Thanks for having me. I've been a big fan of yours for a long time and delighted to find a get a chance to talk to you. |
| 1:31.9 | So I want to start out with a little personal story. |
| 1:34.5 | Last month, I was on the beach in the Atlantic in Rhode Island, and I saw these barges going up north with these huge cranes on them. |
| 1:43.9 | I couldn't figure out, what the hell was that. |
| 1:45.8 | I asked a couple of locals, and they said these were the big cranes that installed the wind |
| 1:52.1 | turbines for the new Revolution Wind Offshore Project off the coast of Rhode Island. |
| 1:59.1 | There to provide 80% complete already to provide |
| 2:03.8 | electricity for Rhode Island and Connecticut. That project has now been 80% complete, |
| 2:10.4 | stopped dead in its tracks by Donald Trump. What's the impact of that? |
| 2:16.9 | The Trump administration has just gone after the wind industry in particular, |
| 2:24.8 | but wind and solar hammer and tone, as they say, |
| 2:29.6 | it has really tried to cripple these industries, |
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