Joe Trotter
Special guest
Joe is ALEC’s Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director. He bring more than ten years of policy, campaign, and communications experience to the Task Force, having worked on energy and environment issues on Capitol Hill and served as the on-the-record spokesman for numerous free-market organizations and campaigns. During his tenure on the Hill, Joe served as a Natural Resources Legislative Assistant, where he worked with coal, natural gas, logging, and transportation industries, as well as federal agencies, to deal with a wide variety of issues.
In addition to writing for NFIB on local, state, and federal issues, Joe has been published in National Review, the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, and numerous other state and local papers.
Outside of his professional career, Joe is an avid outdoorsman and conservationist who spent two years on the Board of Governors of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Izaak Walton League, a local organization that serves as a model for private nonprofit conservation efforts by maintaining a 624-acre conservation farm. In this capacity, he dealt firsthand with land management, soil science, and chemical runoff issues at the state and local levels. Joe graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science, where he majored in the Science of Earth Systems with an additional concentration in ocean sciences.
Joe Trotter has been a guest on 4 episodes.
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America’s Energy Needs: Joe Trotter on ALEC Breakdown
June 26th, 2024 | 14 mins 34 secs
alec, biden, energy, joe trotter, permits
The Biden Administration's energy policy pose a clear threat to affordable and reliable power by revoking permits, denying access, and enriching our enemies. Joe Trotter, director of ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, explains where things went haywire.
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The Energy Affordability Report: Joe Trotter on ALEC Breakdown
December 26th, 2023 | 20 mins 50 secs
alec, energy, joe trotter
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director, sits down with Lars Dalseide, ALEC Director of Policy Advancement and Media Relations, talking about the 3rd edition of the Energy Affordability Report.
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Maui Fires & Restricting American Uranium with Joe Trotter
August 23rd, 2023 | 17 mins 21 secs
alec, fire, joe trotter, maui, uranium
Joe Trotter, ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, sits down with Lars Dalseide to discuss the probable causes of the fires in Maui and how President Biden's decision to designate one of America's richest uranium deposits as a national monument severely restricts the country's ability to become energy independent.
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Canadian Wildfires Flood Eastern Seaboard with Smoke and Haze
June 9th, 2023 | 8 mins 16 secs
alec, canada, fire, joe trotter, lars dalseide, smoke
With smoky skies littering the eastern seaboard, the quality of Canada's forest management policies have come into question. Lars Dalseide sits down with ALEC's Energy, Environment, Agriculture Task Force Director Joe Trotter to discuss the current cloudy situation and how Canada could make better environmental choices.