As Election Day nears, a majority of registered voters in the United States say climate change will be an important issue in making their choice for president. That’s according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted over the summer. And it’s a sharp contrast to the 2016 race when only 2% of likely voters listed climate or the environment as their top priority.
But a surprising number of people who say they care about climate change and the environment don’t actually cast ballots. That’s where the Environmental Voter Project comes in. For the past four years, the nonpartisan organization has been building what they call an army of environmental super voters. Their goal isn’t to get people to care about the environment more or to change minds about climate change -- it’s to get already registered environmental voters to vote - in the presidential election, and others. And they do it by precisely targeting these voters.
On this episode we talk with Nathaniel Stinnet, founder of the Environmental Voter Project.
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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