Media
Podcast - “A Matter of Degrees.” Produced with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson and Stephen Lacey, A 21 episode documentary style podcast series designed for the climate curious. The podcast has both a website and Twitter page for more information.
Video - “The Narwhal Curve.” Produced with Grist, April 2020. For classroom use this video can be paired with my article in Democracy Journal.
Congressional Testimony - Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress, “Examining the Economic Benefits of Electrifying America's Homes and Buildings." Oral and written testimony, September 2021.
Media Clips: I talk regularly with journalists, particularly about climate and energy policy and politics. Here are some selected links to some of my talks, interviews, profiles and quotes in the media.
Television interview on CNN Newsroom, “‘COP29 and US Climate Policy Under Trump," November 2024.
Interview on Pod Save the World, “Election 2024: The Stark Choice on Climate Change,” November 2024
Television interview on Amanpour & Co. CNNi and PBS, “‘These places are devastated’: Climate experts on Helene impact," October 2024.
Interview on NPR Marketplace, “Survey shows more Americans worried about the cost of fighting climate change,” August 2024
Television interview on CBS, “The EPA is spending billions on electrifying school busses. Here’s what it means for kids and schools," August 2024.
Television interview on CNNi, “Why we should be concerned about record breaking heat," July 2024.
Television interview on CBS, “Where Biden, Trump stand on climate change as U.N. sounds "red alert," March 2024.
Interview for Radcliffe Magazine, “A Playbook for Policy Change,” March 2024.
Television interview on CNN, “Amazon basin drought made 30 times more likely by climate change, study finds,” January 2024.
Interview with The Verge, “How to electrify your life when you rent,” October 2023.
Television interview on CBS, “Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says,” August 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 with The Atlantic, “It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial,” September 2022.
Podcast interview on How to Save a Planet, “Holy Sh*t, the U.S. Just Got Serious About Climate Change!” August 2022.
Interview with Science magazine, “Ambitious bill leads to 40% cut in emissions, models show,” August 2022.
Podcast interview on Volts, “What to make of the Democrats' last-minute climate bill,” August 2022.
Profile in Santa Barbara Independent, “UCSB Prof Helped Shape Landmark Climate Bill, Calls for Santa Barbara to Cut Red Tape,” August 2022.
Television interview on Democracy Now! “Behind the Scenes of the Senate Climate Bill & What Finally Pushed Joe Manchin to Make a Deal,” July 2022.
Television interview on MSNBC, “Activists press Biden to play hardball on stymied climate policy,” July 2022.
Radio interview on NPR Morning Edition, “Without the help of Congress, Biden tries to do more to address climate change,” July 2022.
Television interview on PBS News Hour, “What Sen. Joe Manchin’s rejection of new spending means for the climate change fight,” July 2022.
Podcast interview from the 2022 Crosscut Festival, “The effort to provide safe water to everyone,” June 2022.
Podcast interview on How to Save a Planet, “Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?” 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.
Recorded talk, “Fire Drill Fridays 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 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.
Radio 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.