ENVENT Lab Co-Director Leah Stokes is a regular climate communicator, speaking regularly with journalists about climate and energy policy and politics. Here are some selected links to some of Leah’s interviews and quotes in the media.
Television interview on CBS, “Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says,” July 2023.
Interview for The Santa Barbara Independent, “The Electrifying Leah Stokes: Saving the Planet with Heat Pumps, E-Bikes, and Induction Stoves,” April 2023.
Television interview on BBC, “UN Climate Change resolution,” March 2023.
Interview for The Hollywood Reporter, “‘A Matter of Degrees’ Co-Host: Hollywood Needs More Climate Stories,” March 2023.
Interview for The Washington Post, “Can individuals solve climate change? New federal cash makes it more possible than ever,” February 2023.
Television interview on MSNBC, “Why 2022 Was a Turning Point for the Green Transition.” December 2022.
Podcast interview with Bloomberg Green’s Zero, “Will the US finally become a climate leader? With Leah Stokes,” October 2022.
Interview for “The Weekly Planet” from The Atlantic, “It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial,” Robinson Meyer, September 2022.
Podcast interview from the 2022 Crosscut Festival, “The effort to provide safe water to everyone,” June 2022.
Podcast interview on Marketplace, “President Biden says we need more batteries, and we should make them here,” April 2022.
Television interview on PBS News Hour, “Has Biden delivered on climate promises? Analyzing his first year in office,” January 2022.
Television interview on MSNBC, “World leaders gather for high-stakes U.N. climate summit,” November 2021.
Television interview on CNN, “President Biden's climate agenda is on the line. Here's what's at stake,” October 2021.
Radio interview on All Things Considered, NPR, “With Biden's climate plan in jeopardy, can America lead on climate change?,” October 2021.
Television interview on Democracy Now!, “This Is Not a Climate Bill,” July 2021.
Recorded talk, MIT EmTech Conference, “How cheap renewables and rising activism are shifting climate politics,” October 2021.
Television interview on Meet the Press, MSNBC, “We lost time’ on action against climate change in the last four years,” April 2021.
Radio interview on NPR, on the American Jobs Plan, April 2021.
Podcast interview on The Ezra Klein Show, “The Case for, and Against, Climate Optimism,” February 2021.
Featured on, “Fire Drill Friday with Jane Fonda,” January 2021.
Profile in Patagonia, “Public Enemies,” October 2020.
Podcast interview on The Ezra Klein Show, “How a climate bill becomes a reality,” October 2020.
Podcast interview on Why is this happening? With Chris Hayes, “The Invisible Power Struggle with Leah Stokes,” September 2020.
Television interview on the Democracy Now! “This is climate change: West Coast fires scorch millions of acres and blot out the sun,” September 2020.
Television interview on the PBS News Hour, “California wildfires illustrate the consequences of climate change,” September 2020.
Television interview on the Thom Hartmann Program, “Is Trump Behind $60 Billion Utility Bribe?” August 2020.
Television interview on CBS News, “Global quarantine not enough to curb emissions as CO2 levels hit record high”, May 2020.
Television interview on TVO’s The Agenda, “Greener Living Post COVID-19,” May 2020.
Podcast interview on The Energy Gang, “Short-Circuiting Policy: Reckoning With Utilities’ Resistance to Change,” April 2020.
Profile in Grist 50 - Annual list of Top 50 Fixers working on the environment, “This prof will school you on climate change,” March 2020.
Radio Interview for NPR’s KQED, “With California Voters Focused on Climate, Biden Touts Obama-Era Energy Investments,” January 2020.
Recorded talk for UCSB’s Pacific View Rooms: Speaker Series on, “Climate Change in our Backyard: Impacts, Policy and Politics,” January 2020.
Contribution to Forbes, “Five 2020 Energy Predictions: Solar Surge, Coal Crash, Gas Exorcism, Clean Energy Incentives, Public Mobilization,” January 2020.
Profile in the MIT Technology Review, “Answering the climate call,” January 2020.
Interview in HuffPost, “We Spoke To 5 Climate Experts About What Gives Them Hope,” December 2019.
Radio Interview for New Hampshire Public radio on “Where they stand: How Climate Change Policy is Shaping the 2020 Race,” December 2019.
Recorded talk at the MIT Climate Symposium, “On the politics of climate mitigation,” October 2019.
Television Interview for Democracy Now, “Fueled by Climate Change, California’s Raging Wildfires Are Threatening Vulnerable Communities First,” October 2019.
Radio Interview on New York Public radio’s On the Media, “On the Many Gulfs in Climate Coverage,” September 2019.
Recorded talk at New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, “Paying for the costs of climate inaction,” September 2019.
Recorded talk at the University of Pennsylvania’s McHarg Center, “Designing a Green New Deal,” September 2019.
Podcast interview on The Energy Gang, “Does Climate Change Make Good Political TV?” September 2019.
Podcast Interview on The Interchange, “The Surprising Public Opinion Trends Behind the Green New Deal,” July 2019.
Podcast Interview on No Jargon, “The Battle Over Clean Energy,” April 2019.
Interview with The Trouble, “Political Science in Service of “Organized Combat”: An Interview with Professor Leah Stokes,“ December 2018.