Biden's Trillion-Dollar Climate Ambitions

<p>Joe Biden just released a plan to address climate change on a trillion-dollar scale. Along with focusing on rapid deployment of renewables, it also devotes resources to environmental justice, sustainable housing, clean transportation, and networking.</p><p>What would it mean? And who's informing the ideas? We’ll dig in.</p><p>Then Facebook's disinformation problem. We look at why Facebook is rejecting the conclusions of its fact-checkers on some articles about climate change. We’re joined by Emily Atkin, climate journalist and founder of the newsletter <a href="https://heated.world/" target="_blank">Heated</a>, who dug up some of the documents showing who’s making these decisions at Facebook.&nbsp;</p><p>Then, U.S. attorneys in Ohio and Illinois have been busy investigating racketeering and bribery by high-ranking public officials who are doing the bidding of utility companies. In Ohio, the speaker of the House is arrested and in Illinois a utility is put on probation. There’s a common thread, and we tease it out.&nbsp;</p><p>Recommended reading:</p><ul><li><a href="https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/" target="_blank">Biden Campaign</a>: Climate Plan</li><li><a href="https://joebiden.com/environmental-justice/" target="_blank">Biden Campaign</a>: Environmental Justice Commitments</li><li><a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/biden-bumps-planned-clean-energy-spending-to-2-trillion-in-new-proposal" target="_blank">GTM</a>: Biden Pledges $2T in Clean Energy and Infrastructure Spending</li><li><a href="https://heated.world/p/facebook-creates-fact-checking-exemption" target="_blank">Heated</a>: Facebook Creates Fact-Checking Exemption for Climate Deniers</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/climate-facebook-fact-checking.html" target="_blank">NYT</a>: How Facebook Handles Climate Disinformation</li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/22/ohio-house-speaker-arrested-republican/" target="_blank">WaPo</a>: GOP Ohio House speaker Arrested in Connectio