Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

And now our climate story of the week, which we've been doing on the show every Tuesday all this year.

President-elect, Donald Trump, as you may have heard, announced yesterday that he's

nominating former Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin to head the EPA.

This is part of the president-elect's vow to overturn or at least

roll back President Joe Biden's climate policies. Trump has called for a repeal of Biden's signature

climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. That law signed in 2022, to remind you, provides at least $390 billion in tax breaks, grants, and subsidies

for green energy projects like wind and solar power, electric vehicle, battery production, and more.

So now ahead of the incoming administration, Biden and his administration are racing to get that money out of the door.

Yesterday, Biden's climate envoy, John Podesta, spoke at the UN Climate Change Conference,

known this year as COP 29.

In January, we're going to inaugurate a president whose relationship to climate change is captured

by the words hoax and fossil fuels.

Facts are still facts. Science is still science. The fight is bigger than one election, one political

cycle in one country. John Podesta there, joining us now to talk about what to expect from a second Trump

administration and what President Biden can do now to safeguard as many of his climate policies as

he can is Matthew Daley, a reporter who covers climate, environment, and energy policy for the

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