Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
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The episode discusses the economic, environmental, and public health costs of Trump's clean energy policy rollbacks with Amanda Levin from the NRDC.
Two years ago, Donald Trump made an outlandish campaign promise: He would cut Americans’ power bills in half. It was a ridiculous, impossible pledge — but even so, the affordability problem didn’t need to get this bad. A new report, out this week from the Natural Resources Defense Council, looks at the economic, environmental, and public health costs of Trump’s regulatory and legislative clean energy policies, including his rollback of the wind and solar tax credits. The report’s author, Amanda Levin, joins Rob on this episode of Shift Key. Levin is a Director of Policy Analysis at the NRDC’s Science Office. They discuss why Trump’s repeal will have long-term effects, the underrated public health impacts of the rollback, and why Levin believes the credits should be restored. Shift Key is hosted by Robinson Meyer, the founding executive editor of Heatmap News. You can find a full transcript of the episode here . Mentioned: Amanda Levin’s new report: An Affordability Crisis of Trump’s Own Making A ‘Glass Half Full’ Isn’t Enough to Fight Climate Change Previously on Shift Key: The New Paper Arguing Biden’s Power Sector Emissions Cuts Are Largely Intact — Even Under Trump -- This…
People in this episode
Host: Robinson Meyer
Guest: Amanda Levin
Topics covered
- clean energy
- Trump policies
- public health
- economic impact
- environmental costs
Keywords
- Trump
- clean energy
- public health
- NRDC
- wind tax credits
- solar tax credits
- affordability crisis
Sponsors
Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Natural Resources Defense Council
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