Legislating Environmental Justice with EPA's Michael Regan
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
House Democrats are on the verge of passing President Biden's Build Back Better bill, and once they do, it will head to the Senate. The $1.9 trillion social spending bill is a key part of Biden’s agenda.
Both that legislation and the recently passed infrastructure bill have provisions to address climate change. And all this week, EPA administrator Michael Regan has been touring the country to get a first-hand look at polluted communities fighting for environmental justice. Regan joins us to discuss how those bills could lead to better investments in these communities, climate change, and more.Â
And in headlines: Julius Jones’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison, more than 400 Iraqis flew home after weeks of life-threatening conditions at the Belarus-Poland border, and two Iranian nationals were indicted for interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Show Notes:
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan to Embark on “Journey to Justice” Tour – https://bit.ly/3nsRBHs
The Guardian: “Residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley hopeful for action after EPA head’s visit” – https://bit.ly/3CzHqVE
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, November 19th. I'm getting rezzed. |
| 0:08.4 | And I am Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day where we are angling for an exclusive |
| 0:12.9 | story where Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson say they are in love. |
| 0:17.7 | No idea. We're in a start. It's really not our expertise area at all. |
| 0:20.8 | We can dream, but that is pretty much all we can do for now. |
| 0:24.0 | Dream and pray as we have them. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, Oklahoma's governor, Parton Julius Jones, just hours before he was set to be |
| 0:35.9 | executed, plus hundreds of migrants that were stuck at the border between Belarus and Poland |
| 0:40.6 | have been flown back home to Iraq. But first, as of when we went to record on Thursday night, |
| 0:45.2 | House Democrats were getting ready to pass President Biden's build back better bill. |
| 0:49.9 | The $1.9 trillion social spending bill is a key part of Biden's agenda. It expands social |
| 0:55.3 | services, helps families and children, expands healthcare access, and provides funding to fight |
| 1:00.4 | the climate crisis, all of which happened to be huge democratic priorities. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, okay. So let's set the table again. Remind us what the holdups were going into this. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. So Democrats had been waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the cost |
| 1:13.7 | before casting their votes. The CBO estimated that it would increase the deficit by $367 billion |
| 1:19.0 | over the next decade. But if you factor in the amount that could be brought in if the IRS |
| 1:24.5 | would collect from tax cheats, which this bill does have provisions for, that number shrinks down |
| 1:30.6 | to $160 billion. Very nifty. Okay. So then what's going to happen next in this whole process? |
| 1:36.8 | Remind us. So the bill is expected to pass the House, but that is not the hard part. From there, |
| 1:41.7 | it will head to the Senate where it is still uncertain whether or not Democratic Senator |
| 1:45.7 | Joe Manchin will support it. He has had a number of concerns about this bill, including the cost, |
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