President-Elect Biden ran as a moderate Democrat, but he also campaigned on an aggressive climate platform. How much of that agenda he can pursue could rest on who controls the US Senate, pending results of two runoff elections in Georgia.
We unpack this with Jody Freeman, law professor at Harvard. Before that she worked for the Obama EPA, where she helped write fuel-efficiency regulations for cars, which were later rolled back under President Trump.
Biden has pledged to re-join the Paris Climate accord. Though the agreement is non-binding, Freeman says it will be a significant step.
Ep. 44: Goodbye Scott Pruitt, Hello Andrew Wheeler
Ep. 43: Could the Endangered Species Act go Extinct?
Ep. 42: Read the Label: Chemical Safety Under the EPA
Ep. 41: The Making of Scott Pruitt
Ep. 40: Pruitt’s Transparency Problem (and it's not his ethics scandals)
Ep. 39: Will He Stay Or Will He Go?
Trump's Next Frontier
Alaska: Open for Business
Ep. 36: One Down, Three to Go.
Ep. 35: Do Regulations Kill Jobs? Or Save Lives?
Ep. 34: Inside the EPA's Regulatory Rollback Machine
Ep. 33: The Crux of Coal
Ep. 32: Who Will Pay for Trump's Plan to Bail Out Coal?
Ep 31: The Incredible Shrinking Monuments
Ep. 30: Meet the Scientist Standing Up to Scott Pruitt
Ep. 29: Living With Oil and Gas
Ep. 28: A Profound Shift in Environmental Protection
Ep. 27: Is Ryan Zinke *really* a 'Teddy Roosevelt Guy'?
Ep 26: Roads, Bridges and the Future of Civilization
Ep. 25: Global Warming: How Bad Could it Be?
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