Environmental Protection Agency
also referred to as: epa
23 statements across 13 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2022 by Stephen Lacey · said 49 times in 10 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Nina Farah (21), Stephen Lacey (7), News Reporter / Anchor (6), Katherine Hamilton (4), Sam Ricketts (3), Michelle Solomon (3), Yesh Pavlik Slenk (1), Michael Boyle (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The make-or-break moment for America’s energy transition
- America’s green industrial strategy 2.0
- Inflation plagues clean energy. How bad is it?
- Degrees: The fastest electric vehicle fleet makeover in the West
- Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 37 mentions in 3 episodes 12 per episode
Everything said about Environmental Protection Agency, oldest first
Jul 1, 2022 neutral
Obama's 2015 Clean Power Plan set first-ever power plant carbon standards
“In 2015, the EPA under President Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan. It was a big deal. It was the first time that carbon emission standards were set for power plants, and the agency said it had the authority to do it under the Clean Air Act.”
Jul 1, 2022 neutral
The Supreme Court invoked the major questions doctrine against the EPA
“So, what the Supreme Court said was that EPA had acted outside its authority under the Clean Air Act, To use generation shifting, which is shifting from fossil fuel based energy sources to renewable energy sources as sort of the foundation of its regulatory ap…”
Jul 1, 2022 neutral
Legal observers warned the Supreme Court EPA ruling risked being advisory
“We saw the states and a couple coal companies go to the Supreme Court and file individual petitions to have their case reheard, and there was a lot of skepticism, actually, that this case could actually make it to the court because there was no rule in place. …”
Jul 1, 2022 negative
Jul 1, 2022 negative
Supreme Court's climate ruling is 'bad to pretty bad,' not disastrous
“I would say bad to pretty bad. I think mainly because it's definitely not the worst for EPA because it has that flexibility still to look at other solutions. It doesn't require only regulations that focus on the power plant itself, so that makes it less bad th…”
Jul 1, 2022 neutral
Chief Justice Roberts argued the inactive Clean Power Plan posed potential harm
“Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion for this case, and his argument was actually that even though EPA had said that the Clean Power Plan was off the books, it didn't intend to go back to it wanted to start fresh, he argued that this rule was …”
Jul 1, 2022 neutral
The Supreme Court ruling does not eliminate market-based emissions trading approaches
“Emissions trading is another approach that, you know, power plants can use credits to operate if they're emitting too much and use a marketplace kind of approach. Those kinds of things don't seem like they're off the table from this ruling.”
Jul 1, 2022
The West Virginia ruling limits EPA power established in Massachusetts v. EPA
“What the Supreme Court's decision does is limit the power that was recognized to regulate greenhouse gases under that Massachusetts versus EPA decision. That recognized that EPA was required to regulate greenhouse gases.”
Jul 19, 2022 positive
West Virginia v. EPA leaves EPA authority over power plants, says Ricketts
“The recent West Virginia EPA decision, which certainly curtailed the EPA's authority in certain respects, but also left them Plenty of running room to finalize standards for carbon pollution from both new and existing power plants, and those standards have got…”
Jul 19, 2022 neutral
Jan 19, 2023 positive
Hamilton: EPA's $20B Green Bank can leverage another $20B in debt
“That is the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that I've been working on for years. It's basically the National Green Bank. It's twenty billion dollars that would go to a non-profit or some set of non-profits out of EPA and that nonprofit would be able to then take…”
Feb 15, 2023 negative
CPSC and EPA raised gas stove health concerns in the mid-1980s
“And there actually are documentations going back to the mid-eighties that the CPSC and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, were worried about the health impacts of gas stoves, and were raising the alarm bells about some of these studies about nitrogen…”
Feb 15, 2023 negative
Baking in a gas oven exceeds outdoor NO2 limits within five minutes
“The outdoor one-hour standard for nitrogen dioxide is a hundred parts per billion, but we know from studies
that baking a cake, for example, in a gas oven will
Give you a reading of 230 parts per billion, and some recent researchers have been found that in jus…”
Feb 22, 2023 neutral
Grid operators blocked Ameren from retiring its Rush Island coal plant
“Now contrast that with the Rush Island plant in the Ameren service territory. So that power plant Ameren decided they wanted to retire it in September of last year, partially due to the expense of adding Pollution controls to comply with EPA regulations, and t…”
Mar 13, 2023 negative
Mar 13, 2023 positive
May 30, 2023 positive
Aug 15, 2023 neutral
St. John: EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund totals $27 billion
“We're talking about twenty seven billion dollars in total. It gets a little confusing because seven billion of that is for a specific kind of subset of
solar and energy efficiency projects that came in under a separate, you know piece of legislation that got …”
May 21, 2024 neutral
Jul 16, 2024
Feb 19, 2025
Hamilton: Federal freeze halts EPA and DOE project drawdowns
“There are people who can't draw down their funds that were contracted at EPA and DOE, and so, yes, it's stopped projects in their tracks. And when you know, not only have employees on the other end of those projects, but also orders for manufacturing on the ot…”
May 20, 2026 positive
Aug 12, 2026 bearish
Jurowicz: New natural gas generation exposes AI providers to massive commodity risks
“Everyone's taking on an enormous amount of gas risk right now with all the new gas generation being built. Gas risk in the sense of gas is a volatile commodity in terms of price. Gas supply lines can be interrupted. If the EPA cracks down on emissions regulati…”