
Climate Money Watchdog
Climate Money Watchdog is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power with a focus on government expenditures related to climate change mitigation and environmental remediation. When the government and private organizations fail the public or silence those who report wrongdoing, we will be there as an open or anonymous place for them to help expose the corruption and maleficence. We champion reforms to achieve more effective, ethical, and accountable federal, state, and local government that safeguards constitutional principles and fiscal responsibility for climate and environmental spending.
Episodes
39 episodes
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...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 2
•
1:13:41

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
•
Season 4
•
Episode 1
•
48:55

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:...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 5
•
1:05:07

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...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 4
•
1:02:29

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...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 3
•
47:44

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...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 2
•
53:40

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. ...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 1
•
53:03

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...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 6
•
52:24

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...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 5
•
50:08

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...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 4
•
45:07

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...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 3
•
1:02:53

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...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 2
•
1:01:31

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...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 1
•
1:00:15

Capturing CO2 with Paint - Steve & Beth McDaniel
Dr. Steve McDaniel and Beth McDaniel, JD founded and run Reactive Surfaces, and intellect...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 26
•
1:09:18

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 25
•
58:24

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 24
•
1:06:25

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 23
•
55:41

The California Environmental Quality Act - Ethan Elkind
Ethan Elkind is the Director of the Climate Program at the
•
Season 1
•
Episode 22
•
48:31

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 21
•
47:20

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 20
•
59:26

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.
•
Season 1
•
Episode 19
•
1:05:28

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 18
•
54:27

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 ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 17
•
50:55

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...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 16
•
48:27

Natural Carbon Capture & Sequestration at the Carbon Institute - Dr. Jeff Creque
Have you ever dreamed of an approach to carbon capture and sequestration that can be deployed anywhere, and has many years of demonstrated success? It turns out farmers have been employers using this technology – plants – for thousands of years...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 15
•
57:57
