Trump’s Deregulation Push + Michael Moore’s Bad-Faith Movie
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week: while the country is distracted by infection rates, deaths and protests, what else have we been missing?
We peek out from behind the quarantine curtain to see what the Trump administration has been up to on the energy front.
The Trump administration has declared a national emergency over cyber threats to the power grid. Equipment vendors “where a foreign adversary has an interest” will be banned. Most transformers are built in China. Will this create uncertainty or slow grid work?
The executive branch has been busy with environmental rollbacks. The Trump administration wants to loosen as much environmental regulation as possible in the six months before the election. We look at the list.
Then, we answer your questions. We sourced nearly 200 questions from our recent live show. And we’re going to tackle some of them.
They include: Michael Moore’s bad-faith trashing of clean energy and the environmental movement; one group’s attempt to kill solar net metering nationwide; and how the current economic mess is impacting cities and corporates.
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| 0:00.0 | The Energy Gang is brought to you by Sungrow. Sungrow is the leading global |
| 0:04.4 | supplier of inverter solutions for renewables. During these uncertain times, Sungrow |
| 0:09.4 | is committed to protecting its employees and continuing to reliably serve its customers around the world. |
| 0:14.4 | Sungrow has leveraged its extensive network across the US to distribute face masks to communities |
| 0:20.0 | in need. Learn more about Sungrow's work at W. W. |
| 0:23.2 | Sungrow Power.com. |
| 0:25.3 | From green tech media this is the Energy Gang. Weekly debates and discussions about the fast-changing world of energy. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Stephen Lacy. I am in Boston. I'm a contributing editor at GTM. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:42.0 | This week, while the country is distracted by in fact... editor at GTM, welcome to the show. |
| 0:42.8 | This week, while the country is distracted by infection rates, deaths, and protests, what else have |
| 0:48.6 | we been missing? |
| 0:49.6 | We peek out from behind the quarantine curtain to see what the Trump administration has been up to on |
| 0:53.8 | the energy front. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a lot and it's immensely disruptive. |
| 0:58.0 | Then we're going to answer your questions. |
| 0:59.4 | We source nearly 200 questions from our recent live show, and we're going to tackle some of them, many of which |
| 1:05.1 | are really tapped into the news cycle. |
| 1:07.1 | They include Michael Moore's bad faith trashing of clean energy, one group's attempt to |
| 1:11.7 | kill solar net metering nationwide, and how the current |
| 1:14.4 | economic mess is impacting cities, corporates, and oil majors. |
| 1:18.8 | With me to answer these questions are my two co-host. Jigger Shaw is in Bethesda, Maryland. |
| 1:26.0 | He is the president of Generate Capital. |
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