Elizabeth Kolbert

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317 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 29 Apr

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Fresh Air · How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

And they did raise, I believe the estimates were about half a billion dollars for him.

And the fossil fuel industry has, I think, to use this sort of

on technical term, you know, made out like bandits under this administration there.

The administration has moved to dismantle any competitors to the fossil fuel industry.

We just the other day got news that two more offshore wind projects were being canceled and the government is going to pay

They back the companies that lease that land.

So that's money going, you know, sort of out of the U.S.

Treasury, and they're supposed to use that to, you know, search for fossil fuels.

So there is a very, very concerted effort to protect the fossil fuel industry.

It's gotten a lot of tax breaks under this administration, new tax breaks, even more tax breaks, while we sort of dismantle the nascent economy.

clean energy industry that might be a competitor.

Now, why is this going on?

Is this some ideological crusade?

Is this some – certainly some people are getting very wealthy off of it.

But I think that as a society, once again, you would think that there would be more pushback against this because clearly fossil fuels are not the fuels of the future.

And we are sort of letting a lot of clean energy –

Technologies, basically, they were already being dominated by countries like China, and we're just basically letting that happen without putting up any fight.

And I think that very soon, not in the distant future, but in the pretty near future, we're really going to regret that.

Yeah, so the Maha Moms, who are a somewhat heterogeneous group,

And different people have different priorities.

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