498 - Why the Supreme Court Ruling on the EPA Isn't The End of Fighting Climate Change
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The recent Supreme Court ruling limiting the EPA's ability to mandate carbon emissions reductions is a setback but not game over for fighting climate change. Former environmental official Tom Burke talks with Stephanie Desmon about the ruling and about this "perfect storm" moment of extreme weather, a war that's jacked up oil prices, and a lack of political will to face climate change. They also discuss some things to be hopeful about and what can be done right now to adapt and innovate for a better future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
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| 0:40.9 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:45.8 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Tom Burke, an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins, |
| 0:48.9 | and a former federal and state environmental official, |
| 0:51.9 | about how we can get a handle on climate change, |
| 1:00.8 | despite a recent Supreme Court ruling on the EPA and a stalemate in Congress over funding game-changing policies. Let's listen. |
| 1:05.9 | Tom Burke, thanks so much for joining me. Great to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:13.3 | So I really wanted you on the program to discuss the blow that the Supreme Court has dealt to the powers of the EPA. |
| 1:14.8 | And we will get to that. |
| 1:21.1 | But there's been a lot of talk about climate change lately about failed legislation, the lack of support. |
| 1:26.1 | It's all happening when there's heat waves and fires and all this stuff going on. |
| 1:30.9 | And so I guess my question to you is, what can be done by President Biden himself to keep us from going off this sort of climate cliff? Great question. |
| 1:37.3 | And you're right. Right now there just seems to be a perfect storm of really, really tough weather, |
| 1:43.3 | extreme events. Here and Europe. Today, we're |
| 1:46.4 | under a red heat alert in Baltimore, for instance. And yet it also seems like the sky is falling |
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