Is Climate Delayism the New Denialism?

<p>We weren’t planning on making the Green New Deal a weekly item on the show. Then <a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2101109139978731&amp;id=263615334116809&amp;__tn__=%2AW-R" target="_blank">a video</a> of Senator Dianne Feinstein dropped over the weekend, where she appears to lecture climate-protesting kids. It set off a chain reaction of outrage.</p><p>The social media fervor has since died down, but some really interesting journalism was left in its wake. This whole affair highlighted the crazy upheaval in climate politics — we’re going to tackle some of the bigger questions raised.&nbsp;</p><p>Are kids a legitimate constituency? What makes climate politics so different from other issues? Are climate delayers as bad as climate deniers? What’s the end game for Democrats?</p><p>Then, another ethics conflict for Trump’s energy people. We’ll talk about an EPA official who worked with a secretive utility group that lobbies against air pollution regulations, just months before he took a role regulating air pollution.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/zcolman?lang=en" target="_blank">Zack Colman</a> of Politico joins us to talk about the ties he uncovered. What do they tell us about the state of lobbying ethics and utility power in the nation’s capital?</p><p>Don’t forget about our live show on April 4 at the MIT Energy Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Listeners get 10% off using the code “energygang” when they buy a ticket.&nbsp;Get tickets: bit.ly/mitenergygang</p><p>Read along with us:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-hard-lessons-of-dianne-feinsteins-encounter-with-the-young-green-new-deal-activists-video" target="_blank">The New Yorker</a>: The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein’s Encounter With the Young Green New Deal Activists</li><li><a href="https://www.axios.com/dianne-feinstein-green-new-deal-074d5c7f-9a07-4c7b-9be8-d7f81ad266b3.html" target="_blank">Axios</a>: Dianne Feinstein's Green New Deal Video Basically Explains the Deb