506 - A Climate Change Activist Reacts to the Climate Change Bill
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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President Biden is poised to sign the historic Inflation Reduction Act that will, among other things, enact sweeping changes to the US energy sector and efforts to fight climate change. Tiernan Sittenfeld, the senior vice president of the League of Conservation Voters, talks with guest host Shelley Hearne about the bill and its game-changing potential for the environment and public health. They also discuss why major climate legislation has failed in the past and what needs to be done to ensure that implementation is successful.
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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, |
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| 0:37.4 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rog Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:41.3 | Today, we turn to climate change. |
| 0:44.3 | Shelley Hearn, the Dean Somer and Clag professor of public health advocacy at the Bloomberg School, |
| 0:49.3 | talks with Tiernan Sittenfeld, the Senior vice president of the League of Conservation Voters. |
| 0:55.5 | They discussed the passage of the climate change bill designed to reduce greenhouse gases by over 40%. |
| 1:02.2 | Let's listen. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, Tiren Sittenfeld. I am so happy to be speaking to you just as we know, the U.S. House of Representatives is about to pass a historic climate bill. |
| 1:16.6 | One, the, what, how long have you been working on this bill? |
| 1:20.4 | Well, hi, Shelly, and thanks for having this great conversation at this extremely exciting time. |
| 1:25.6 | I have been working to combat the climate crisis and to protect |
| 1:29.6 | our environment and public health for my entire career, which is longer than maybe I should admit |
| 1:34.7 | at this point, but have really been focusing in earnest on passing a comprehensive climate change |
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