Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director and Executive Editor of Queer Voices at Huff Post as well as the co-host of the Love + Sex Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines over at Queer Voices. Be sure to follow Noah of Twitter!
Back in April, Energy
Secretary Rick Perry ordered a study to back up his claims that solar
and wind power were undermining the U.S. electric grid’s reliability and
forcing the premature retirement of nuclear and coal plants. Then in July, Bloomberg obtained a copy of the draft
report, written by Department of Energy staff, and it revealed that they found
essentially the opposite of what Secretary Perry was claiming. Now, the Energy Dept. has finally released
the final version of the study and according to Dr. Joseph Romm who is a senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress and the founding editor of ClimateProgress.org, and formerly served as
acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the final report clearly shows that Trump officials tried to rewrite the previously staff draft to give the impression
that renewable energy sources are actually a threat to baseload power and grid
resilience. Dr. Romm joins me on the
show today to talk all about the report and the ramifications of the Trump
administrations attempts to change the results of study to suit their political
agenda.
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