Biden Goes Electric

What A Day

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Biden announced his goal to make new vehicles greener in his administration’s first major use of federal regulatory power to cut carbon emissions. Still, some climate advocacy groups say that Biden's executive order doesn’t go far enough compared to the plans of other countries to achieve zero emissions. New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo has been given until Friday the 13th to submit evidence in his defense for his impeachment investigation, which began back in March and focused not only on sexual harassment claims but also the handling of data about COVID deaths in nursing homes. We discuss what the impeachment process might look like with Josefa Velasquez, senior reporter at The City. And in headlines: the Justice Department launches an investigation into Phoenix's police department, wildfires rage in Europe and the U.S., and Ibiza enlists undercover officers to infiltrate illegal dance parties. Show Notes: NY Times: “Facing Loss of Supporters, Cuomo Gains Attention From Prosecutors” – https://nyti.ms/3lCKmfs For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Friday, August 6th. I'm Gideon Rezik.
0:08.1	And I'm Priyanka Erogindi and this is what a day where if
0:11.4	Jeopardy doesn't hire Levar Burton, we will simply recut Reading Rainbow and turn it into
0:15.9	a game show.
0:16.9	Yeah, but instead of learning about books, now the kids on the show are going to be getting
0:20.0	rich off of trivia.
0:21.0	Good for them, it'll probably be a full time job for us as well, but I think we're prepared.
0:25.4	Mm-hmm. Yeah, we gotta go. We gotta get this running.
0:27.4	See ya.
0:29.4	On today's show, a restaurant in San Francisco jokingly put a $72 fried rice on the menu and
0:36.4	it became the bane of their existence. Plus, we give you a roadmap to the possible
0:40.7	impeachment of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
0:42.9	But we are going to start with President Biden's pledge yesterday to make new vehicles greener.
0:46.9	That's why today I'm signing an executive order, setting out a target of 50% of all passenger
0:53.0	vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric and set an emotion on all-out effort.
0:59.3	That was President Biden announcing his non-binding goal through a new executive order.
1:03.9	It would also require that cars and shops sold in the US be more fuel efficient starting
1:07.7	with a model year 2023.
1:09.3	Okay, so all of this sounds pretty good, but how much work is that non-binding part actually
1:14.0	doing?
1:15.0	Yeah, so 50% is a goal.
1:16.7	No one's gonna be sitting at every car dealership making sure that every other car sold is electric.
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