#256: Sustainability of the Environment with Biden

Cellar Door Skeptics Podcast

This week the team tackles issues and questions related to the environment. For years Cellar Door Skeptics have advocated a change is needed to allow for a sustainable earth for centuries to come. Now it is more than ever crucial to help determine a better way forward. This episode will discuss electric vehicle production, how other countries handle it, and if it can be profitable for the United States. They also dissect Biden’s Environmental picks to help determine if there is enough experience to help push the agendas to save the environment. The show contains the usual segments Answering Conserviative Questions and the Quick Save Segments. Subscribe: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CellarDoorSkeptics/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CellarDoorSkeptics RSS Feed: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8326690/episodes/feed iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics/id10 Website: http://cellardoorskeptics.com Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cellardoorskeptics PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/CellarDoorSkeptics Intro Music: https://aloststateofmind.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYKbTG3MdQI Links -------- https://www.axios.com/what-bidens-ev-push-could-mean-for-jobs-ff4e0bb8-1121-4cba-84e0-5b069c7ef8a5.html https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/ https://www.bls.gov/green/electric_vehicles/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2020/09/23/489894/electric-vehicles-win-american-workers/ https://www.infodev.org/infodev-files/green-industries.pdf -------- Question of the Week “Will it be counterproductive to tax corporations and “the rich” into oblivion?” -------- https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/933848488/biden-administration-heres-who-has-been-nominated Brenda Mallory Chairperson, Council on Environmental Quality https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/ https://www.eli.org/bios/brenda-mallory https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/new-director-of-regulatory-policy-carries-decades-of-expertise https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/17/947355441/biden-to-nominate-brenda-mallory-to-run-council-on-environmental-quality ----- Eric Lander Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/eric-s-lander https://achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/ ----- Michael Regan Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency https://www.epa.gov/ https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/environmental-protection-agency https://deq.nc.gov/about/leadership/michael-s-regan https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/michael-regan-epa.html https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03621-6 ----- John Kerry Special Presidential Envoy for Climate “The new position will be the first time that the NSC would have an official dedicated to climate change issues and to addressing the climate crisis as one affecting national security.[1]” https://www.usglc.org/positions/special-presidential-envoy-for-climate/ https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/john-kerry https://www.propublica.org/article/john-kerry-biden-climate-czar ----- Gina McCarthy National Climate Adviser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_McCarthy https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/15/945937035/biden-to-name-gina-mccarthy-former-epa-chief-as-domestic-climate-coordinator https://www.nrdc.org/