The Biden Administration's Climate Policy and Possibilities

Today's guest hosts are Brent J. Cohen and Edwith Theogene, Executive Director and Organizing Director for Generation Progress.

During today's episode, they discuss how the Democrats now controlling the White House and Congress has massive implications for many different policy areas, including climate. In President Biden’s first week in office, his administration has already signed several executive orders reversing harmful policies from the Trump administration and establishing new policies that experts agree will help us better address the climate crisis. Today, declared “Climate Day” by the White House, Biden signed an executive order establishing a White House interagency council on environmental justice, creating an office of health and climate equity at the Health and Human Services Department, and forming a separate environmental justice office at the Justice Department. 

To break down some of the immediate actions that the Biden administration has taken on climate and where policy experts and environmental justice advocates hope that the administration and Congress will go from here, Brent and Edwith are joined by two expert guests:

They are LaTricea Adams, the founder, CEO, and president of Black Millennials 4 Flint, and Alexandria Villaseñor, the founder of Earth Uprising.

Here are the Twitter handles for today's guests and their organizations:

Black Millennials 4 Flint - @BM4Flint, Earth Uprising - @Earth_Uprising, Alexandria Villaseñor  - @AlexandriaV2005  

The website for 'Generation Progress' is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress.  Brent J. Cohen's Twitter handle is @BrentJCohen and Edwith Theogene's handle is @CharlatAnne.