236. SOTU: Unpacking Biden's Vision and The IRA
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week, we bring you a US democracy special, discussing Joe Biden’s energetic State of the Union Address in which climate action played a significant role, and also the new guidelines from the Securities and Exchange Commission, a move which has seen the Commission attract a slew of legal challenges from both sides of the climate divide. The hosts ask: can Biden’s campaign for presidency in 2024 unite the partisan divide around climate change and if not, how can we protect the progress that the IRA has already made in the US in the face of a Trump victory?
To help us unpack all of this, we have the force of nature and great friend of the podcast, Gina McCarthy, former White House National Climate Advisor and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator. Today, Gina is a Senior Advisor at Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Managing Co-Chair of the America Is All In Coalition, and a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School’s Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University. She is also an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors and a Senior Advisor at TPG Rise Climate Fund. She serves as co-chair of the India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change, and on the Board of Directors for the Energy Foundation and the Resources Legacy Foundation.
Music this week comes from James Hastings with his beautiful song ‘Mother’. James is a singer-songwriter whose unique brand of eco-conscious alt-folk conjures up wild, earthy textures enfolded in ethereal, electronic landscapes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:13.0 | welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rifik Karnak. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Christina Vierras. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.0 | Today we're going to talk about what's been happening in the US |
| 0:20.0 | with the State of the Union, the new guidelines from the Securities and Exchange Commission, |
| 0:24.3 | we speak to Gina McCarthy, former Chief White House Advisor and Legendary Administrator of the |
| 0:29.4 | EPA. |
| 0:30.4 | And we have music from James Hastings. |
| 0:32.8 | Thanks for being here. So every time we talk to Gina McCarthy it seems that there's a million other things |
| 0:49.0 | going on and that probably speaks to the wild and brilliant energy that Gina always brings. |
| 0:53.7 | Right now I am in a... |
| 0:54.7 | The question is, is she going to be in her car when we talk to her? |
| 0:58.4 | We only record from her in her car. |
| 1:00.3 | She's not in her car. |
| 1:00.9 | We can't really make the recording. |
| 1:02.1 | Listeners will remember that we spoke to her from a car park. |
| 1:04.6 | She pulled over to talk to us when she was going to Washington |
| 1:07.1 | to take the job of being Joe Biden's White House chief advisor on climate. |
| 1:11.8 | She's now stepped down. And so we're going to talk to her now about where the politics are and what's going to happen. |
| 1:17.0 | But first we're going to get into some big events that have been happening in the US over the course of last week. |
| 1:22.0 | The first is the State of the Union |
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