BONUS: Biden Promises To Grapple With Environmental Racism
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🗓️ 7 February 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In this episode of Short Wave, NPR climate reporter Rebecca Hersher talks about the history of environmental racism in the United States, and what Biden's administration can do to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Read Rebecca's reporting on how Biden hopes to address the environmental impacts of systemic racism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Audi Cornish here. It's Sunday and we've got another bonus episode for you. |
| 0:05.3 | It comes from our colleagues at NPR's Daily Science podcast, Shortwave. |
| 0:09.8 | And it's all about the environmental effects of racism, how air and water pollution disproportionately |
| 0:15.5 | affect people of color and what the Biden administration plans to do about it. |
| 0:20.3 | Shortwave host Emily Kwong and NPR climate reporter Rebecca Hersher will take it from here. |
| 0:33.1 | Last week, President Biden signed some executive orders. |
| 0:36.6 | Good afternoon, everybody. |
| 0:37.9 | Maybe you've heard about some of them. |
| 0:39.2 | There was one about making it okay for transgender people to serve in the military, a couple about |
| 0:43.9 | making it easier to sign up for health insurance through Obamacare and a bunch about climate change. |
| 0:49.2 | Let me get to it. |
| 0:50.5 | Today is climate day at the White House. |
| 0:53.0 | Becky, this may be a good place for you to say who you are. |
| 0:55.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Rebecca Hersher, climate reporter here at NPR. |
| 0:59.3 | And I'm Emily Kwong. |
| 1:00.8 | So what was the deal with all these presidential orders about climate change? |
| 1:05.7 | Well, it was a mixed bag. |
| 1:07.2 | There was some stuff about making it harder to drill for oil and gas on public land, |
| 1:11.7 | suggesting more money for solar and wind energy, helping people work in those industries, |
| 1:17.1 | which is all really important for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
| 1:20.1 | But the presidential order that really caught my attention was one about racism, |
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