Ep 111: Maggie Thomas, Political Director at Evergreen Action

Today's guest is Maggie Thomas, Political Director of Evergreen Action.

Evergreen Action is a recently founded nonprofit, organized by the former staffers of Governor Jay Inslee's presidential campaign. Its mission is to elect a new president, who will lead a national mobilization effort to defeat the climate crisis while creating millions of job opportunities as part of a new green economy. Prior to joining Evergreen Action, Maggie served as climate policy advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren and deputy climate director to Governor Jay Inslee. During the Democratic presidential primaries, the Inslee campaign’s climate plans were heralded as a gold standard of climate policy for the 2020 presidential race.

I was very excited for this discussion, as Maggie is deep in climate policy and has done so on behalf of campaigns that have arguably the best climate policy around. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, including the key tenants of the Inslee policy plan, what it was like to be a part of the Inslee campaign and the Warren campaign, and where we find ourselves in this pivotal moment of the clean energy transition.

In addition to dissecting the merits of various policy positions, we also discuss what other levers can be most impactful to bringing about the change that we so desperately need. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and I suspect you will as well.

Enjoy the show!

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