From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Tuesday, June 6th.

Now to our climate story of the week.

Today we will look into the climate ramifications of the debt ceiling

agreement that President Biden signed into law. The debt limit proposals from Republicans,

remember, sought to undo many of the climate and energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act,

measures the White House touted for creating jobs and putting U.S. climate goals within reach.

Remember, the Inflation Reduction Act was the largest climate investment and the biggest

climate bill in U.S. history.

So we'll talk about what Biden gave up and what remains of those climate provisions.

We'll also talk about some of the other major concessions in the debt limit bill,

especially the $6.6 billion gas pipeline that Senator Joe Manchin helped get into the compromise.

Joining me now is Mark Hartsgard, Executive Director of the Global Media Collaboration,

covering climate now and environment correspondent for the nation.

Marco is good to have you. Welcome back to WNYC. Thanks, Brian. It's good to be here.

So big picture, as you see it, what did the Republicans get from the White House here regarding

climate? I think that's been actually a very underplayed aspect of this story, Brian,

so I'm glad you guys

are focusing on it today.

And what the Republicans got was a lot less than they hoped for initially.

They essentially, their opening bid in this standoff with the White House was essentially to undo

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