SIO402: How Biden's Climate Legislation Is Making A Difference

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today's expert takes us through some of the ways that Biden's underrated climate legislation is driving research and investment into clean energy, carbon capture, and more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 402. I'm your host Thomas
0:21.4	Smith. And you know as much as I am horrendously disappointed in how Biden has responded to
0:28.8	the Israel Hamas conflict, it is also true that he's done some pretty amazing things and
0:34.9	gets no little to no credit for them. And today's episode is about one or two of those
0:40.9	things. You may have heard last year when Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act that
0:47.6	it was the most aggressive climate change bill in American history. And you know that's
0:53.8	good that he did that. That's good that Democrats passed that by obviously the narrowest of margins.
0:59.8	And of course the minute you try to doubt any accomplishment like that, the first response is,
1:06.1	but it's not enough, but it's not enough. And it's like, yeah, no, no, I get it. It also had to
1:10.6	pass Congress. I won't go on a long speech, but the way to get more progressive legislation through
1:16.5	Congress is to elect more progressive people to Congress and have a larger and larger majority such
1:23.4	that the swing senator or swing house rep is more progressive than and only then can you get more
1:32.4	progressive legislation. But even still, this is actually quite impressive given who we needed as
1:38.5	like the swing votes. And today's expert has some direct experience with some of the effects of
1:44.3	the bill. He's choosing to remain a bit anonymous just because of job reasons, but his name is
1:49.9	Donald. And he's here to talk about carbon capture and some of those technologies that I certainly
1:56.2	don't know that much about. And what Biden's legislation has done and is trying to do and is
2:01.6	planning to do in the future to encourage these industries and incentivize improvements in
2:07.3	technology and utilization, all these things that if you chip away to enough of these, start to
2:12.4	look like progress on the problem of climate change. So that's today's expert. I'm excited to
2:17.7	get over to it before I do. I'll just say if you don't want to hear the really annoying auto
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