In the Connect the Dots podcast, the Center’s president, Rob Verchick, interviews legal experts, scholars and researchers, and community members on policy issues that impact you, your family, and your community. Each season untangles themes related climate adaptation, energy justice, workers’ rights and public health, and more.
This podcast is supported in part by the Arlie W. Schardt Fund for Climate Justice.
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks with Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholar Noah Sachs. They discuss Sachs' article on the Paris Agreement and what's next for the world's climate change accord now that the United States has started officially withdrawing from the agreement.
In this episode of Connect the Dots, Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholars Alejandro Camacho and Robert Glicksman discuss the essential roles of government and regulation -- and how to improve both. It's based on their book, Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional Framework.
In this episode of “Connect the Dots,” host Rob Verchick talks climate change, energy, and coastal protections with former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
In this episode of Connect the Dots, Rob Verchick interviews Leslie Fields, Director of Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships at the Sierra Club, and John Hughes, an attorney representing clients harmed by giant hog CAFOs in North Carolina, connecting the dots between environmental harm, social justice, noxious odors, and dangerous pollution. This episode was taped live at the Center for Progressive Reform's Regulation as Social Justice conference in June 2019.
In this episode of Connect the Dots, Rob Verchick is Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholar and University of Minnesota law professor Alexandra Klass. They connect the dots among public lands, energy resources, and climate change, discussing how land use makes powering our societies possible, and the role of the federal government in developing renewable energy resources.