How Successful Was The Biden Administration In Fighting Climate Change This Year?

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressing racial inequality, and rejuvenating the economy. Over the next few weeks, the NPR Politics Podcast will check in on whether those goals being met.

President Biden rejoined the Paris climate agreement and pledged to halve U.S. greenhouse gas pollution from 2005 levels by 2030. But his ambitious goals, which scientists say are necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change, have been stymied by a coal-state Democrat and constraints on executive power.

This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent Scott Detrow, and climate correspondent Jeff Brady.

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0:38.2	I'm Aisha Roscoe. I cover the White House.
0:40.4	And I'm Scott Detre. I also cover the White House.
0:42.7	So we're doing some podcasts to close out the year,
0:45.7	focused on what President Biden said were the four pillars of his agenda as president.
0:51.6	This was how the four top areas that he was going to focus on,
0:56.4	which were racial equity, fighting COVID,
1:00.8	climate change, and building the economy.
1:03.9	Today, we're going to talk about the climate crisis.
1:06.9	And we're joined by Jeff Brady.
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