How California Plans to Navigate a Future of Apocalyptic Weather

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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After weeks of torrential rain storms that have flooded communities, toppled trees and brought on huge economic devastations, Yana Garcia joins Inside the Hive to share how environmental justice will play a role in recovery. For weeks, a battery of atmospheric rains has bombarded California, destroying roads, triggering mudslides, and flooding homes and farms — all that following months of drought, and before that, wildfires. This week, Inside the Hive is joined by Yana Garcia, California’s Secretary of Environmental Protection, who describes the damages wrought by these extreme storms, and explains what California is doing about it — including facing off with oil companies over the fossil fuel emissions the state argues have intensified weather events in California and beyond. Garcia was an environmental justice lawyer before becoming head of the state’s environmental protection agency, and a native Californian, describes the weather changes she’s observed first hand growing up in Oakland, and the way forward in the fight to correct the climatological balance (plus, she tells us what her mysterious tattoos mean). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Inside the Hive. This is Emily Dean Fox. I'm here with my co-host Jo
0:09.4	Hagen H. Joe. Hello. What is it? Week three of the year 2023? Just like it
0:17.3	already been deep into this year, 2022. It's like a very far away memory. But the
0:25.0	sun is shining here in Los Angeles. At long last it feels like honestly it
0:29.1	felt like it rained on and off for six weeks, which is very unusual here. And I'm
0:34.4	so happy that this city, that this state is crawling out of what was not only
0:40.6	literally dark, but also figuratively dark stretch of time, which brings me to
0:46.6	our interview here today. Jo, you are talking to someone who is boots on the
0:52.0	ground, who's who's deep in the mess of what's been happening here in
0:55.4	California today. Is that right? Yes, we're talking to Yana Garcia. She is the
1:01.5	38-year-old head of the California's EPA Environmental Protection Agency. And
1:07.3	she's sort of somebody that's been at the avant-garde of environmental issues
1:12.4	in California for the last few years. Before this she was the deputy secretary of
1:17.7	environmental justice, tribal affairs, and border relations, which ties
1:22.0	together quite a lot of California issues. And I thought of her to come on the
1:27.0	show. I'm excited to have her because what it was it? Three months ago,
1:31.5	California's main issue was droughts and power, right? Flash forward, it's
1:37.0	flooding in mudslides. Previous to this people thought of about fires, you know,
1:42.8	the sun being blotted out of the sky in San Francisco. And you know, I mean, the
1:47.1	extreme nature of weather in California, as you well know, is just a part of
1:52.6	life there. But it's also a, you know, signal of climate change and a
1:59.7	harbinger in some people's view of what all of our fates may be one day if
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