But apparently we’re going somewhere sicker, which is sick. Okay, so everything we just rode was sick. No matter what you’re looking for in a ski vacation, Aspen Snowmass has you covered.Īspen, Colorado is a ski town, a snow sport paradise. Al Letson:įrom the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. Please be aware that the official record for Reveal’s radio stories is the audio. Reveal transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. MacArthur Foundation, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Park Foundation. Support for Reveal is provided by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the John D. This story was supported by Emerson Collective. Reporters: Will Evans and Najib Aminy | Producer: Najib Aminy | Editors: Jenny Casas, Katharine Mieszkowski and Kate Howard | Data reporting and analysis: Melissa Lewis | Fact checkers: Nikki Frick and Kim Freda | Production managers: Steven Rascón and Zulema Cobb | Digital producer: Nikki Frick | Original score and sound design: Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda, with help from Claire Mullen | Interim executive producers: Taki Telonidis and Brett Myers | Host: Al Letson | Legal fellow: Dara Gray | General counsel: Victoria Baranetsky | Thanks to: Mohamed Al Elew and Andrew Donohue Read: What Really Happens When Emissions Vanish (Bloomberg) Credits Read: As Climate Clock Ticks, US Government Has Been Using Burning Trash to Look Green (Reveal) He also talks to a REC industry veteran and examines how a plan from the Biden administration could change things. Evans looks into where the government’s modest environmental goals come from and why federal agencies buy RECs in the first place. It turns out that federal agencies bought RECs from this incinerator in order to meet renewable energy mandates.įinally, we explore another place where the government buys RECs: two biomass plants in Georgia, where residents complained of toxic pollution. He meets Andrew Byrd, who lives nearby and worries about the fumes. Amid all the sounds and smells of burning garbage, Aminy looks into whether buying RECs actually helps the environment and where the money goes. Next, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. Reveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. So how exactly do RECs help the climate crisis? This week, Reveal investigates RECs and finds that the federal government uses them to pad its environmental stats. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment.įor years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Please reload the page and try again.Īpple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | S titcher | Pandora | Amazon Music (Trust you agree with me! Smile.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. It can be done.and only if we stop the just moaning/groaning but consider some 'doing'. Let's go for helping similar people in to some share of national power. Oo, urr.People of some common sense are most of us. (Tory and Labour lot are 'pits' (diabolical). They are our only chance.It's good to have a chance. And if you are, you may even consider becoming a bit active ie help them in some way. I only add one more thing to this: If any Reader of this is in the UK, do get to see what the Reform Party is about ie Richard Tice and co. The world of people (nice folks) is waking up more and more. They're so obvious and think we're as daft (stupid) as they are. It's the 'usual culprits'! No longer is it difficult to ascertain who they are and what they're about. I know it's sometimes hard to do so nowadays with all the nutty folks we're all experiencing 'doing their thing'.
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