How Donald Trump's Cabinet Will Deal With The Environment
WBEZ Chicago
Jerome McDonnell
December 15, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for the U.S. Departments of State, Energy, Interior and the EPA will face heavy scrutiny from environmentalists for their collective positions on issues like climate change, energy extraction and the environment.
Most of Trump’s picks are skeptical of climate change and during the 2012 Presidential Campaign, Rick Perry, Trump’s choice to head the Department of Energy, actually advocated for the elimination of the department he’s now tapped to lead.
We talk about the future of U.S. Energy policy in the Trump Administration with investigative journalist and energy analyst, Antonia Juhasz. She’s author of the book The Tyranny of Oil.
Listen to the full interview here.