Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 2)

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the recent capital attack. With all of that and more on his plate, what of Biden’s plans to fight climate change? “This President-elect has shown that he is absolutely committed to addressing the issue of climate,” says former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman. “Because it affects everything.” Advancing a bipartisan climate agenda will be a hard sell. But in his nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden has made friends and earned respect from his Republican peers. “That isn’t gonna fix everything, of course not,” admits former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. But if you start with that...there are enough Republicans in the Senate who will respond to that.” Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey, former EPA Administrator Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former Republican Senator from Nebraska John Podesta, Founder, Center for American Progress; former Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	Can President Biden bring the country back together and move it forward?
0:35.5	Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate
0:38.3	emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary. I'm Greg Dalton.
0:46.5	Democratic control of the incoming U.S. Senate increases the odds that President Biden can
0:50.9	assemble the team he wants to pursue his climate agenda and not a moment too soon.
0:55.7	John Podesta of the Center for American Progress says the time for incremental steps is passed.
1:00.5	We need bold, holistic action.
1:03.0	We're going to have to say, what are we doing about cars? What are we doing about planes?
1:08.1	What are we doing about ships? What are we doing about the power sector? And we're
1:12.3	going to have to be all in on making change happen in those sectors. We'll speak with Podesta
1:16.9	later in the program. But first, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, head of the
1:21.7	Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush. She believes the new EPA administrator,
1:27.1	Michael Regan,
1:27.7	should waste no time when it comes to undoing the damage done by the previous administration.
1:32.7	One of the first things they ought to do is go to the various entities within the Division
1:36.8	of Water, the Division of Air, each or every one of those, and to tell them that science matters
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