Metals, government debt, and a climate lawsuit

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

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Last year, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law as the Biden Administration's signature attempt to combat climate change. Today, we present three climate-related indicators with guest Nate Hegyi of the public radio podcast, Outside/In.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Wayland Wong.
0:14.7	And I'm Adrian Ma, and it's Friday, which means it's time for indicators of the week,
0:19.4	that time where we highlight numbers from the past week of economic news.
0:23.0	And we are joined this week by a special guest, Nate Hege, host of the Public Radio
0:30.4	podcast, outside in.
0:32.8	Welcome back to the indicator, Nate.
0:34.1	Hey, it's great to be here.
0:35.8	It's great to have you, and for listeners who might be interested in checking out your
0:39.0	show, how would you describe what you cover?
0:41.3	We cover pretty much anything and everything about the outdoors, so wildlife, cute stories
0:46.2	about the possums, stuff like renewable energy, climate change.
0:50.5	Sounds amazing.
0:51.5	Especially the possums.
0:52.8	Oh yeah, climate change is really the reason we wanted to have you on this week, because
0:57.0	well, it's been a year since Congress and the Biden administration passed the Inflation
1:00.3	Reduction Act, which you could also think of as the Carbon Reduction Act, because it
1:05.1	has so many provisions that it aimed at addressing climate change.
1:08.6	So we thought, let's use this milestone as an excuse to highlight three climate-related
1:13.1	indicators.
1:14.1	That's coming up after the break.
1:16.9	Okay, my indicator is 23.
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