Terry Gross interviews Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post, who outlines the Trump administration’s big last-minute push to roll back environmental regulations and to open up drilling in ANWR, among other things. A really interesting and succinct overview of what’s going on and how the Biden Administration may respond. Recorded the day before Biden’s inauguration.

Among many interesting parts:

GROSS: I want to ask you about this. One of Trump’s signature campaign promises was to bring back the coal industry. How did that turn out?

EILPERIN: So in fact, what we’ve seen is, despite President Trump’s dogged efforts to bolster the coal industry, what’s happened is that roughly 15% of the nation’s coal generated capacity has gone out of business under his time in office. And so that’s a faster decline in coal capacity in any single presidential term, so even faster than what happened under Barack Obama. And in addition to the plants that have already retired, there’s another 73 that had indicated that they will close more coal burning units by the end of the decade.