EPISODE · Apr 16, 2026 · 42 MIN
How Dirty Power Clouds New York’s Climate Future
from CUNY Graduate Center · host CUNY Graduate Center
As Earth Day approaches, Ashley Dawson returns to The Thought Project for a sobering conversation about climate politics at a moment of global instability. Dawson, a distinguished professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, is a member of Public Power New York, a movement for a just, publicly controlled energy transition in New York. He was also the 2025 Climate Justice Fellow at the arts organization Culture Push, where he worked on a series of photographs and short films about the struggle to abolish polluting power plants, and he is currently a resident at the Center for Architecture Lab in New York City, where he is co-curating an exhibit on the infrastructure of energy transition in the city. In conversation with host Tanya Domi, Dawson examines renewed fossil fuel dependence, weakened environmental enforcement, and the battles over climate policy in New York and California, while also pointing to public power, offshore wind, and community-led solar as part of a more just and resilient future.
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As Earth Day approaches, Ashley Dawson returns to The Thought Project for a sobering conversation about climate politics at a moment of global instability. Dawson, a distinguished professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, is a member of Public Power New York, a movement for a just, publicly controlled energy transition in New York. He was also the 2025 Climate Justice Fellow at the arts organization Culture Push, where he worked on a series of photographs and short films about the struggle to abolish polluting power plants, and he is currently a resident at the Center for Architecture Lab in New York City, where he is co-curating an exhibit on the infrastructure of energy transition in the city. In conversation with host Tanya Domi, Dawson examines renewed fossil fuel dependence, weakened environmental enforcement, and the battles over climate policy in New York and California, while also pointing to public power, offshore wind, and community-led solar as part of a more just and resilient future.
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