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This week, host Daniel Raimi talks with Tony Reames, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan\u2019s School for Environment and Sustainability, and a leading scholar on the closely related topics of energy justice and energy poverty. In his conversation with Raimi, Reames describes what energy poverty is, how the federal government currently addresses energy poverty, and how quantifying the problem can lead to good policy solutions.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cAn incandescent truth: Disparities in energy-efficient lighting availability and prices in an urban U.S. county\u201d by Tony G. Reames, Michael A. Reiner, and M. Ben Stacey; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261918302769\n\n\u201cThree Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change\u201d by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/three-scenarios-for-the-future-of-climate-change\n\n\u201cThe Warmth of Other Suns\u201d by Isabel Wilkerson; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190696/the-warmth-of-other-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/