The latest guest on the Climate Check podcast is Julie Raskin, Executive Director of the Sanitation Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of New York City’s Department of Sanitation. Julie explains how our waste is actually full of valuable resources that can save energy and money if properly sorted and processed. Educating everyone from toddlers to...

Audrey is joined by Jaqi Cohen, Director of Climate and equity Policy at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. TSTC advocates for increased mobility in the greater NYC region. Its priorities are expanding public transit, creating safer streets, transitioning away from fossil fuels, and fighting for equitable funding of transportation projects. Their approach is talking to communities...

Our host, Eva, welcomes Rachel Coyle, a Coalition Organizing Fellow at NY Renews. Based in NYC, Rachel is a dedicated climate advocate and activist. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University and, before joining NY Renews, worked as a sustainability consultant, helping businesses with carbon accounting and decarbonization. She also served as a community...

Our host Eva is joined by Michael Burger, Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer-at-Law at Columbia Law School. He is a co-author of Urban Climate Law (Columbia U Press, 2023), and an editor or co-editor of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA Publishing, 2023); Combating Climate Change...

On this episode, Eva talks with Nancy Romer of the Professional Staff Congress, the 30,000-member union representing CUNY faculty and staff. Nancy leads the Environmental Justice Working Group, driving efforts to reduce fossil fuel use across CUNY’s 25 campuses. A key focus? Holding the NY Power Authority accountable to the Build Public Renewables Act, which...

Our host Eva is joined by Kimmy Cushman of Plant Based Treaty. Kimmy Cushman is a scientific advisor and campaigner at Plant Based Treaty, a global grassroots organization working to bring the food system to the forefront of climate change policy. While studying physics at Yale University, Kimmy became an organizer for the graduate student...