In this special two-hour edition of BURN, stories about the power of one: how, in this election season, a single person, place, policy or idea can – with a boost from science – affect the nation’s search for greater energy independence.

GUESTS

Jane Long: Associate Director at Large for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Robert Bullard: Dean of Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University

Steven Cowley: Director of the UK’s leading fusion research center

Alec Loorz: Founder of the organization “Kids vs Global Warming.”

Lisa Margonelli: Director of the Energy Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation

Ron Ness: President of the North Dakota Petroleum Council