Hothouse Earth
Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment at Vermont Law and Graduate School
5.0from 41 ratings
- 42
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 41
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Hothouse Earth
With environmental crises reaching a critical tipping point, we find ourselves sprinting to keep up with fast-changing environmental law and policy developments like regulatory rollbacks and subsequent lawsuits. Join experts from the nation's premier environmental law school as they provide concise, accessible conversation on the most pressing issues of our time. If you are an advocate, journalist, educator, student, or concerned citizen seeking to understand environmental law and how it relates to current events, Hothouse Earth is the podcast for you.
- Publisher
- Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment at Vermont Law and Graduate School
- Category
- education · government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 42 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Federal Climate Policy’s Demolition and Reconstruction, with Sean Donahue
25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Looking Back and Looking Forward: VLGS Environmental Leaders Reflect on a 50-Year Legacy
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Environmental Advocacy and Defamation in the SLAPP Era
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Federal Climate Policy’s Demolition and Reconstruction, with Sean Donahue
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then, of course, repealing the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's signature climate initiative, and replacing it with a different set of emission standards for power plants called the Affordable Clean Energy, or ACE rule, that was just extremely unambitious. It was basically focusing on running efficient power plants, but not achieving significant reductions. It wasn't totally clear any reductions would occur. And then in some other areas, Clean Water Act and air toxics, rolling back regulations and adopting much more narrow ones in the Clean Water Act case, a rule based on Justice Scalia's narrow understanding of federal jurisdiction over wetlands. […]
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- Sean Donahue
- Gus Speth
- Patrick Parenteau
- Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
- Lindi Mutius Widell
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 38 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100
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- Quality
- 23
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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