Terra Verde

California Climate Policy Incentivizes Factory Farm Manure Gold Rush

One of the greatest climate challenges for Californians is coming to grips with the perverse outcomes of the states markets-based mechanisms for managing emissions. Public interest attorney Brent Newell joins Terra Verde to describe efforts to address the harms from factory farm pollution and the environmental injustice embedded in the false climate solution of biogas from industrial animal agriculture. In the second half of this hour long fund drive special of Terra Verde we hear from J Jordan, who works with Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability to design interventions in Sacramento that elevate the imperative of addressing these pressing issues.