Climate Money Watchdog
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40 episodes
Bernadette Del Chiaro - PFAS Pesticides on Your Food
Our guest tonight is Bernadette Del Chiaro, Senior Vice President at the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit working to empower people with breakthrough research to make informed choices and live a healthy life in a healthy environment.
Lew Daly - 45Q Carbon Capture Tax Credits are a Financial Disaster in the Making
Our guest tonight is Lew Daly, Senior Fellow for Climate and Energy Policy at Just Solutions, where he works in partnership with state and federal organizations and networks in pursuit of a jus...
Natural Gas is Worse than Coal - Dr. Robert Howarth
While the fossil fuel industry continues to promote "natural gas" as a relatively "clean" energy source, Dr. Robert Howarth has argued since since his
A Law Firm Just for Whistleblowers - Poppy Alexander
We’re delighted to welcome back Poppy Alexander, a founding partner at the law firm Whistleblower Partners, a law firm dedicated to representing whistleblowers reporting fraud and misconduct in:...
How The Plastics Industry is Tied to Fossil Fuels – Melissa Valliant
We’re pleased to have as our guest Melissa Valliant, Director of Communications for Beyond Plastics, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending plastic polution. She grew up...
How Fossil Fuel Subsidies Affect the Environment - Doug Koplow
Doug founded Earth Track to more effectively integrate information on energy subsidies. For the past three decades, he has written extensively on natural resource subsidies for organizations such as the...
Developing Clean Energy Solutions for the Seneca Nation - Matt Renner
Matt Renner serves as Vice President of Seneca Environmental, a tribally owned and controlled Earth-healing solutions company focused on h...
Problems with Q45 Tax Credits for Carbon – Paul Blackburn
Our guest tonight is Paul Blackburn of Pipeline Fighters’ Hub. Paul provides legal services on pipeline and renewable energy matters. ...
Standing Up for Communities in Houston – Erandi Trevino
Our guest this episode is Erandi Trevino of Public Citizen, Houston. Erandi grew up in Houston and has been con...
How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air: Mark Z. Jacobson
We’re excited to welcome back Mark Z. Jacobson, who joined us last year to talk about a study he co-authored called “Low-Cost Solutions to Global Warming, Air Pollution...
Introducing the Climate Money Watchdog and Climate & Capital Media Partnership - Peter McKillop
In this episode we welcome Peter McKillop, the founder and CEO of our new partner, Climate & Capital Med...
Retiring 90% of our Coal Power Plants would Save Money - Michelle Solomon, Energy Innovation
Michelle Solomon is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Electricity program at Energy Innovation, working to accelerate the transiti...
Citizens Prevail over Venture Capitalists and Carbon Capture - Mike Eisenfeld
In this climate fight will Big Fossil Fuel, it is hard and rare to have a clear-cut victory. The last time we did a p...
Protecting Communities in an Oil Boom - Kayley Shoup
Kayley Shoup is an activist with the Citizens Caring for the Future, an environmental group that is affiliated with New Mexico Interfaith Power & Li...
Capturing CO2 with Paint - Steve & Beth McDaniel
Dr. Steve McDaniel and Beth McDaniel, JD founded and run Reactive Surfaces, and intellect...
Weathering a Hurricane in a Town Designed for Climate Change - Ryan Foelske
Ryan Foelske a Carbon Free Electricity Program manager at RMI (previously the Rocky Mountain Institute) decided to put his money where his mouth is by buying a home in Babcock R...
Protecting Communities from Pollution with Alison Steele
While pollution mitigation and control is vital to the environment, scientists are finding more and more problems for the humans that live near polluting corporate sites. Unfortunately in the name of jobs and profit, companies have produced pol...
Repurposing EV Batteries at Relyion with Dr. Surinder Singh
Dr. Surinder Singh’s distinguished career has focused on advancing and incubating technologies that address climate emergency with a focus on fundamentals of science, systems engineering, and bus...
The California Environmental Quality Act - Ethan Elkind
Ethan Elkind is the Director of the Climate Program at the
Climate Money Watchdog 20 Episode Recap with Dina and Greg
Climate Money Watchdog founders Dina Rasor and Greg Williams recap our first twenty episodes. We cover such issues as:Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)Every Dolla...
Community Choice Aggregation at MCE - Jenna Tenney
Today we’re joined by Jenn Tenny, Communications Manager for the MCE (originally Marin Clean Energy), a relatively new kind of government organization called a CCA, which stands for Community Choice...
Every Dollar Spent on CCS is a Waste - Dr. Charles Harvey and Dr. Kurt House
Dr. Charles Harvey is a professor of environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Finally, A Possible End to PFAS Forever Chemicals - Dr. Brittany Trang
Dr. Brittany Trang recently made New York Times headlines with an experimental but extraordinarily promising method fo...
Charles Koch, ALEC and Climate Misinformation - Elliott Negin
Elliott Negin, Senior Writer at the Union of Concerned Scientists.Elliott was UCS media director from 2007 through 2011 and now writes ...
Low-Cost, Low-Risk All-Renewable Energy Plans for 145 Countries - Prof. Mark Jacobson
Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. Some describe him as the architect of the U.S. Green New Deal. He has authored books, tex...
