Director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal and the host of No Place Like Home podcast Mary Anne Hitt on creating a cleaner, greener planet by eliminating coal, the difficulty of pushing for a world beyond coal under the Trump administration, how cities and states can tackle climate change on a local level, why the argument that renewable energy is too costly is outdated and how the rise of young people fighting climate change makes her optimistic about the future.

You can find out more about Mary Anne Hitt on Twitter at @MaryAnneHitt and the No Place Like Home podcast at NoPlaceLikeHomePodcast.com and the Beyond Coal campaign on Twitter @BeyondCoal or at BeyondCoal.org.

The Hardy Report is a political news and current affairs podcast, bringing you interviews with a range of activists, campaigners and politicians from across the political spectrum in the United States and the United Kingdom.