Inside The White House: Interview with the President’s Climate Adviser

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@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As we experience the hottest summer in recorded history, we have a conversation with White House National Climate Adviser, Ali Zaidi, about what the administration is doing to combat climate change. Despite all the recent negative headlines, Zaidi explains to Mosheh why he remains an optimist and the progress that has been made globally in recent years. He also discusses the White House strategy regarding clean energy, why electric cars are cleaner than gas-powered vehicles, whether climate change has a “branding problem,” and the latest tax breaks and incentives for Americans adopting clean energy alternatives. This conversation comes as the White House gets set to mark the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes billions of dollars in climate initiatives as the administration tries to hit ambitious CO2 reduction targets. —- Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the MO News podcast, I'm Oshawa Nunu.
0:07.1	With a special edition today, we're interviewing the White House National Climate Advisor.
0:11.7	As we all experience what scientists say is the hottest summer in recorded history and
0:15.7	potentially going back 100,000 years, the White House remains focused on its ambitious
0:20.4	targets related to cutting CO2 emissions and helping state and local officials and companies
0:26.6	deal with this new reality.
0:28.5	Today I speak with Ali Zadi, the White House National Climate Advisor.
0:32.3	He coordinates the administration's policy to tackling the crisis.
0:36.2	One of his key agenda items has been implementing the Inflation Reduction Act, which turns
0:40.6	a year old this week.
0:42.1	It contains hundreds of billions of dollars, including tax credits for electric cars,
0:46.5	and a number of incentives for taxpayers across the country will get into that in this
0:50.5	conversation.
0:51.5	Also, it's been focused on moving the battery industry and clean technology here to the
0:56.8	US.
0:57.8	We talk about those wildfires in Hawaii, how this summer's heat records are impacting climate
1:01.8	change policy, why people shouldn't get too pessimistic about those doom and gloom headlines,
1:07.4	some optimism from the White House as far as the progress that's being made.
1:11.4	And I also ask them about whether climate change has a branding problem.
1:15.4	We also get to a few of your questions, including when we'll be seeing more electric car
1:19.3	chargers on the streets to make an electric car more realistic for a number of you.
1:24.4	Before we get started here, I want to thank everyone who's joined Monu's premium.
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