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The Trump Administration recently announced that it will impose a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels. Host Dan Loney talks with Mauro Guillen, Director of Wharton’s Lauder Institute, and Matt Gold, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, to discuss the tariffs which has some worried it will cost jobs in the solar energy industry and hurt the nation’s push toward renewable energy on Knowledge at Wharton.

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