It's officially summer in the United States, which has unfortunately come to mean it's time for

heatwaves, freak weather events, and forest fires. What we on the west coast have come to

known as smoke season, and what those of you on the east coast are finally come to realize

is the new reality. So we thought it'd be a good time to revisit an episode we did in 2021

with financial regulation experts Sarah Bloom-Raskin about climate change. She helps us explore

what levers exist to steer fiscal and monetary policy toward lasting sustainability.

Can we create transformative climate outcomes by adopting new regulatory strategies

or by using the regulations we already have? Stay tuned to find out.

We're fortunate to have an administration again that believes in climate change and believes

it's the role of government to do something about it. We still have quite a bit of work to do

in the financial regulatory space. The challenge, of course, to addressing climate change is to

rewire the economy with new regulations and incentives so that the economic activity

creates a more sustainable planet, not a less sustainable planet.

From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics,

with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.

The death toll is rising from that historic heatwave broiling the west,

and it's fueling a wave of dangerous wildfires.

Throughout the heatwave, Washington State reported more than 1,300 emergency room visits

for heat-related illnesses. Officials believe the increase in fatalities is likely linked to the

extreme weather. Death Valley saw 130 degrees pushing toward the hottest temperature ever recorded

on Earth. Nearly one half of the country from the Pacific coast to the Great Plains and the

Upper Midwest is experiencing moderate to exceptional drought conditions. It's expected to get

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