The White House Effect: How did climate change go from a scientific issue to a political crisis? Featuring live Q&A with William K. Reilly, EPA Administrator under President George H.W. Bush

Film screening and Q&A with William K. Reilly, EPA Administrator under President George H.W. Bush

Three decades ago, the world was poised to stop global warming. Using exclusively archival material, THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT tells the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of history.

Woven entirely of archival material, the documentary focuses on the pivotal years of the George H.W. Bush administration—1988 to 1992—when the entire country was waking up to the reality of global warming and Bush had pledged to use “the White House effect” to tackle it.

THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT reveals how Bush finds himself increasingly caught between his chief of staff John Sununu and industry power brokers on one side and his EPA chief Bill Reilly and climatologists on the other.