America’s Trillion-Dollar Climate Infrastructure Play

<p>This week, the nuts and bolts of climate policy: infrastructure.</p><p>With a $2 trillion covid relief package under his belt, Biden looks to harness another $3 trillion on building clean energy, hardening the electric grid, installing electric car chargers, and updating roads and bridges.</p><p>We’ll game out what’s needed and what’s possible.</p><p>Then: is this the moment for the black climate agenda? And if so, what are the priorities?</p><p>Finally, how will pressure campaigns over new fossil fuel infrastructure play out in the next four years? And what lessons have we learned from previous fights over the last decade?</p><p>The gang this week: <a href="https://twitter.com/CleanGridView" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katherine Hamilton</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Stphn_Lacey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen Lacey</a> are joined by climate strategist <a href="https://www.tolesolaughlin.com/bio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tamara Toles O’Laughlin.</a></p><p>Resources:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/climate/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-climate-change.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York Times</a>: Biden’s Biden’s Recovery Plan Bets Big on Clean Energy</li><li><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063727925" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">E&amp;E News</a>: How the Infrastructure Bill Might Tackle Climate Change</li><li><a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/black-neighborhoods-flooding-climate-change/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Redfin Study</a>: Redlined Communities Face Greater Flood Risk</li><li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/13/us/minnesota-enbridge-pipeline-protest-go-there-weir-wxc/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CNN</a>: A New Pipeline Battle Fires Up in Minnesota</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>This podcast is brought to you by Sungrow, a leading provider of PV inverter solutions around the world. Sungrow has delivered more than 10 gi