Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Amy Harder (@AmyAHarder)is one of the top national energy and climate change reporters in the country, distilling complex energy and climate issues to people outside the industry at Axios.

Amy has appeared on PBS' NewsHour, CSPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, and NPR, among many other media outlets, and regularly speaks at events and panel on climate change.

Full episode here: http://disruptors.fm/172-energy-the-environment-and-journalistic-integrity-in-a-post-truth-influencer-world-amy-harder

In today's episode we discuss:

- The importance of journalistic neutrality
- What the state of climate change today
- How Trump's transformed eco policy
- What carbon capture could do to save our future
- Why governmental climate policies are unlikely
- Which areas of cleantech are most promising for future growth
- Why we need more stories on hopeful climate change
- The big difference between European and US startups
- What a more effective Paris Accord could look like
- Why sustainability needs economic drivers to success
- The reason Amy's hopeful about our planet's future
- Why a carbon tax won't work and possible alternatives
- Why plastics are ruining the world in more ways than one

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