Big Decisions: The Future of US Environmental and Energy Policy
Date
Feb. 25, 2021
Rob Dobi
Resources Radio is a weekly podcast launched in late 2018 and produced by the Resources editorial team and Resources for the Future (RFF). Guest hosts Richard G. Newell, president and CEO of RFF, and Susan F. Tierney, chair of RFF’s Board of Directors, sat in for a month-long spin-off series that we launched last fall. Throughout the series, Newell and Tierney talked with leading decisionmakers, analysts, researchers, and reporters about the big decisions that will impact US environmental and energy policy in the years to come.
Big Decisions in Air Quality Regulations
Transcribed here is one such episode, in which Richard G. Newell spoke with Mary D. Nichols, an environmental lawyer and chair of the California Air Resources Board. They discussed some policy debates that have animated Nichols’s years leading the agency, from early disputes surrounding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s push for a cap-and-trade program to contemporary discussions about crafting environmental policies that address systemic injustice.
This podcast episode was originally released on October 19, 2020. The transcript of this conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
https://www.resources.org/archives/big-decisions-the-future-of-us-environmental-and-energy-policy/
