It's the Brian Laris Show on 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 vow to overturn or at least roll back President Joe Biden's

climate policies. Trump has called for a repeal of 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 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 COP29.

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 Daly, a reporter who covers climate, environment, and energy policy for the Associated Press.

Hi, Matthew. Welcome to WNYC today.

Oh, good to be back with you, Brian. I appreciate it.

And as I said in the intro, the Inflation Reduction Act aims to provide $390 billion,

but over the course of 10 years. So in the two years so far, how much has been awarded and what has it gone towards?

Well, there's sort of some dispute about exactly how much has been awarded, but there's been tens of billions, and I would say probably well over $100 billion has been awarded.

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