Speaker: Jonathan Mingle

Climate Policy under a 2nd Trump Presidency
Tuesday, 1/21/2025
5:00 - 6:00
Virtual Library

United States

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The Trump campaign has signaled its plans to undo key federal environmental regulations and roll back Biden-era clean energy and climate policies. Journalist Jonathan Mingle will discuss his reporting on the first Trump administration's dramatic impacts on environmental policy, and on the fossil fuel industry and conservative groups that are now pushing a second Trump administration to go even farther in dismantling the administrative state. He will also discuss what these sweeping changes might portend for communities hit hardest by pollution and future climate change-driven weather disasters. Q&A to follow his remarks.

Jonathan Mingle is an independent journalist based in Vermont. His reporting and writing on the science and politics of climate change, the energy transition, health and technology has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Yale Environment 360, Undark Magazine, Slate, and other outlets. He is a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. He is the author of two nonfiction books: Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World (2015) and Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future (2024).

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This program is organized by the library's Environmental Center and Government Information Center

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