November 26, 2019

Future of the EPA

1 hour 12 minutes

Speakers

Tammy Webber (Moderator) Reporter, The Associated Press

Kerrigan Clough (Speaker) None

Judith Enck (Speaker) Visiting Professor, Bennington College, Founder of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Regional Administrator

Ruth Greenspan Bell (Speaker) Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Founding Member, Environmental Protection Network; and formerly of Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

David Uhlmann (Speaker) University of Michigan

Description

Fewer employees. Regulatory rollbacks. Funding cuts. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been weakened even as it faces enormous challenges posed by climate change, emerging pollution sources and other threats. We take a look at what it would take to rebuild the agency to meet those challenges as well as how the agency might look and function in the decades to come.

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