'BradCast' 6/2/2016: (Mark Muro of Brookings Institution sudden public policy changes destabilizing an otherwise booming residential solar market)
It's official! U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is now on the 'Trump Train' after weeks of pretending that maybe he wouldn't be. Then, still more polls show Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders virtually tied in California before the state's primary next Tuesday, as the same polls show Sanders doing far better against Donald Trump than Clinton. Next, after an electric utilities district near Palm Springs, CA suddenly shut down an important 'net metering' program for new rooftop solar customers (allowing them to sell back unused clean energy to the utility company), CA Democrats in the state Assembly quietly killed a bill that would have corrected the problem - leaving residents in the hole for tens of thousands of dollars in solar investments. The Brookings Institution's Mark Muro joins us to explain how and why sudden public policy changes, supported by big utility companies as well as both Republican and Democratic officials around the country, are beginning to destabilize an otherwise booming residential solar market. What the hell is going on, and who is really behind it? Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report' with debunking of Donald Trump's amazing energy speech, and his bizarre explanation for why he believes there's no drought at all in the state of California...