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Kamala Harris and Gina McCarthy: Views From The Inside

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a big year for U.S. climate policy. Three major pieces of legislation: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act have all become law, ushering in the largest commitment of federal money toward the climate crisis to date. In a bipartisan vote, the Senate also finally ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which will help phase out some of the most potent greenhouse gasses. Gina McCarthy has helped shepherd these achievements in her former role as White House Climate Advisor, and joins us to discuss her time leading climate action under President Biden.  We also feature a special interview about the Biden administration’s climate priorities between Vice President Kamala Harris and the hosts of the podcast A Matter of Degrees, Katharine Wilkinson and Leah Stokes. Guests:  Kamala Harris, Vice President, United States Gina McCarthy, former U.S. White House National Climate Advisor, former U.S. EPA Administrator Guest Hosts: Katharine Wilkinson, Co-host, A Matter of Degrees, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The All We Can Save Project  Leah Stokes, Co-host, A Matter of Degrees, Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, UC Santa Barbara For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe.

0:03.0

A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:06.0

But that's not where her story ends.

0:08.0

Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:11.0

she got her score into much better shape

0:13.0

and relocated to a box fresh new place,

0:16.0

with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.

0:19.0

Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian, better your score,

0:28.7

better your story. This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. This has been a big year for energy

0:34.7

and industrial policy in the U.S. New laws are moving public and private

0:39.4

money toward cutting emissions and on-shoring manufacturing. That's how you hopefully can help drive

0:46.2

the economy in a way that will get us to those climate goals, that will allow us to get off of

0:52.4

fossil fuels and onto clean energy.

0:55.2

That's the key.

0:56.5

But getting to this point has been a long, hard road.

0:59.7

You have so many highs and lows, especially on things that matter.

1:04.8

So you make progress, you take steps back.

1:07.5

You make progress. You take steps back.

1:09.7

Now the challenge for the Biden administration

1:11.7

is to implement his policies effectively and move tax dollars efficiently. We're not where we need to

1:17.4

be, but we have evolved around the importance of clean industries as compared to a lot of other nations.

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