joining us we have trevor higgins, the senior vice president of energy and environment policy at the center for american progress and brigham mccown who is director and senior fellow at the hudson institute's initiative for american energy and security. what are we expecting during this trump administration the second one, day one when it comes to energy policy? guest: that is a great question and you can look back at round one for an idea of what he will do. it is his view that he needs to unleash american energy independence to make the country stronger and more secure. if we look back at a traditional definition it is about availability and accessibility and it is about cost, affordability. and the president will focus on energy sources that he believes will be cheaper and better for the american economy. host: what will those be? guest: the president is known for liking fossil fuel and natural gas production has been important, just switching from coal to natural gas has resulted in low prices, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions. he likes nuclear. i think he is in all of the abo

trevor higgins, what did you make of the answer from the former congressman to head up the epa? >> i am glad that he feels that his -- that it is necessary to say that climate change has -- is happening and i agree with senator sanders that that has not been president trump's position. it is real and the epa has a responsibility to acknowledge that. at another point he talked about whether co2 is a pollutant that contributes to climate change and he acknowledged that the epa has said it is and it is and it is important for the epa to take responsibility for that. host: why? >> because the pollution standards for carbon dioxide pollution is set by the epa. there are no rules that the industry is relying on to guide their investment decisions and if the epa throws them into uncertainty for trying to rewrite the rules and trying to retract and replace them with very little, it leaves and makes it much more difficult for the united states to plan the future course to industrial investing -- develop and. host: what do you expect on those standards that trevor higgins was talking abou

host: trevor higgins? >> there is a right way and a wrong way to build things. people who have genuine responses to their own homes and interests are acting often in good faith and we do not need to denigrate the people who have spoken up to go to protests to make their voices heard, that is a first amendment right in this country. and we do need to build more transmission and it can be difficult. the biden administration has reformed environmental permitting processes and has stood up the dashboard of the improvement steering council. they have continued to push these and they have revised the guidelines at cdq and negotiated changes in the law for permitting reform. they pursued additional reform changes. there are ways to try and build things that can get the social license from the communities where they are hosted, the buy in and meet the future that they need to build and meet the current energy needs. and it takes a clarity of vision for how to do that. guest: let me clarify. absolutely and i totally agree with you. local landowners and local people have

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joining us we have trevor higgins, the senior vice president of energy and environment policy at theter for american progress and brigham mccown who is director and senior fellow at the hudson institute's initiative for american energy and security. what are we expecting during this trump administration the second one, day one when it comes to energy policy? guest: that is a great question and you can look back at round one for an idea of what he will do. it is his view that he needs to unleash american energy independence to make the country stronger and more secure. if we look back at a traditional definition it is about availability and accessibility and it is about cost, affordability. and the president will focus on energy sources that he believes will be cheaper and better for the american economy. host: what will those be? guest: the president is known for liking fossil fuel and natural gas production has been important, just switching from coal to natural gas has resulted in low prices, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions. he likes nuclear. i think he is in all of the above t

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