Barack Obama, every mention
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This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- ▶ 0:14 Lara Pierpoint He was a finance director for Barack Obama's campaign and an advisor in the Obama White House. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:04 Shomik Dutta The passage of the Affordable Care Act is one of the proudest moments, I think, that President Obama would still reflect on today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:37 Lara Pierpoint When I left my job at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration and went to go work for Axelon, my very first day on the job, my boss sat me down, and he raised an eyebrow, and he was basically like, I'm skeptical of you, Laura,…
Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
- ▶ 3:02 Julia Piper Brandon served as the Department of Energy's chief of staff in the Obama administration and went on to found both the climate advisory firm Boundary Stone Partners and Overture, a climate VC fund.
- ▶ 33:45 Brandon Hurlbut So, um, that is the negative impacts on, you know, you know, that the science is calling out, but we do have allies in Europe, like Ukraine, that have been dependent on Russian gas, and I know when I was in the Obama administration, the…
A view of the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
- ▶ 24:32 Stephen Lacey And he quoted John Holdren, who was Obama's science advisor, who said, it's a recognition by one of the country's most important environmental organizations that geoengineering is something that can't be ignored.
LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
- ▶ 13:29 Nicole Pollack Pretty much stuck to the precedent that was set during the Obama administration, and then maintained and even increased during the Trump administration, um, on just supporting exports, promoting exports, uh, promoting the use of LNG around…
- ▶ 45:08 Nicole Pollack Even in the Obama years, uh, that's basically the approach that the administration took, that, ok, well, if we're exporting our gas to countries around the world, at least they'll be using that instead of coal, and
Investors riff on the new era for climate investing
- ▶ 6:43 Eric Wesoff The LBJ's Great Society, another good name, um, was to cost five hundred and twenty billion dollars, and Barack's, uh, Barack Obama's ARRA, not a good name, uh, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, um,
Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?
- ▶ 14:52 Josh Becker Thanks to Canary for pulling this together, and this feels like one of probably hundreds of clean energy, uh, meetups that I've been to over the years in my role, either as a clean energy investor, um, as a entrepreneur, as co-founder of…
Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- ▶ 5:16 Stephen Lacey And it was at that time when Obama really beefed up his support of electric vehicles, and that set the stage for this eventual embrace of EVs by the industry's top automakers.
- ▶ 35:27 Maria Gallucci Presidencies, which is very complicated then for those presidents, for Obama and Biden's sort of climate legacy, but, you know, these arguments that the candidates are making lack any of that nuance at all.
Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff?
- ▶ 9:29 Jigar Shah Yeah, you know, it's one of those things where, uh, for a long time, uh, government has been sort of on the sidelines, right, that it provides this extraordinary amount of funding for, uh, new designs, R&D, these other pieces, but, you…
What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- ▶ 25:35 Miranda Green The time they were, you know, if you look at some of these articles that were written about him, they were saying he's in the pocket of Obama.
Stunning new data on coal vs renewables
- ▶ 0:11 Stephen Lacey When President Obama entered office, coal was the undisputed king on the grid. 3 times in the scene
Gas stations vs utilities: battle for the future of charging
- ▶ 15:32 Stephen Lacey Yeah, during the Obama administration, when the president came out and said we want millions of electric cars on the road, a lot of people laughed. 2 times in the scene
America is finally doing something big on climate
- ▶ 7:53 Katherine Hamilton Now, when Obama came in as president, he had huge majorities. 4 times in the scene
Are Biden’s climate ambitions in Congress dead?
- ▶ 2:31 unnamed speaker And John Podesta, former counselor to President Barack Obama and former chief of staff
How bad is the Supreme Court’s decision on climate?
- ▶ 4:02 Stephen Lacey In 2015, the EPA under President Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:12 Stephen Lacey President Obama and now President Biden have really relied on administrative action to try to implement their climate plans.
A historic climate rule from America’s financial regulator
- ▶ 9:39 Kathleen Brophy We did begin to make important progress on this issue under the Obama administration. 2 times in the scene
The military’s net-zero aspirations
- ▶ 1:43 Stephen Lacey Trump went into office ready to smash Obama-era environmental policies.
- ▶ 11:41 Stephen Lacey So I'm thinking from Obama to Trump to Biden.
- ▶ 13:47 Erin Sikorsky I think it's new, you know, because toward the end of the Obama administration, he too released an executive order on climate change and national security that established new mechanisms for coordination across all the security agencies,… 2 times in the scene
Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
- ▶ 1:37 Katherine Hamilton If he loses those, it will be exactly what happened to President Obama when the Congress flipped and he ended up not being able to get as much done as he wanted to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:33 Katherine Hamilton For example, President Obama was even when he first got in, in that there just aren't that many moderate Republicans anymore, and so cutting deals really means about how do you work with your own party.