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Trumping the Climate: Coming in Hot

The Trump administration’s determination to revive coal mining and domestic oil drilling is causing concern that international efforts to combat climate change will crumble. But how far will the new Trump team be able to shrink rules created under President Obama and as far back as President Nixon? U.S. Senator John McCain recently cast a deciding vote against a Republican effort to roll back restrictions on methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas. California, long the vanguard of environmental protections, vows to keep forging ahead with its climate agenda.

What are the new politics of carbon? How much change will the Trump administration really bring to the climate change fight? What are energy investors and companies doing in the new political context? Join a conversation about energy, markets and the mainstream news media.

June 1, 2017

The Commonwealth Club
555 Post St.
San Francisco, 94102
United States

Speakers
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Gil Duran

Former Spokesman for Governor Jerry Brown and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein

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Amy Myers Jaffe

Executive Director of Sustainability, UC Davis Graduate School of Management

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Jim Sweeney

Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University

Greg Dalton

Founder and Host, Climate One