shutterstock_2361784279 (1) Guests Kevin Rennert , and Margaret A. Walls Host Daniel Raimi Producer Elizabeth Wason Image TarikVision / Shutterstock In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Karen Palmer, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and director of RFF’s Electric Power Program; Kevin Rennert, a fellow at RFF and director of RFF’s Federal Climate Policy Initiative; and Margaret Walls, a senior fellow at RFF and director of RFF’s Climate Risks and Resilience Program. Palmer, Rennert, and Walls offer insights on notable stories in energy and the environment in 2024, including an intense Atlantic hurricane season and emerging narratives around climate policymaking in all three branches of government. They also look ahead to developments to watch in environmental and energy policy in 2025. Listen to the Podcast Notable Quotes US Supreme Court limits action on climate change from the executive branch : “The Environmental Protection Agency is really heavily constrained in what it can do by the Supreme Court. As we think about climate policy writ large moving forward, we have less of that counterfactual of a [presidential] administration that wants to use its own tools. I think it’s clearly going to shift the emphasis back to Congress to take action to do what we need to do to move to a lower-carbon economy.” —Kevin Rennert (16:15) State court decision reinstates Virginia in regional carbon pricing program : “Virginia increases the size of the program by one-third, and I think it’s important more broadly, because the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has always been a model and a leader on how cap and trade works, and they’ve introduced new innovations that have been adopted across the globe. As we look forward to an administration where we’re unlikely to be pricing or capping carbon, this progression of […]