The Stakes for Climate and Energy with David Roberts

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We’re back with another episode of our WITHpod 2024: The Stakes series, in which we choose specific areas of policy and talk to an expert about Trump and Biden’s records on the topic. This week, we’re discussing what’s at stake for an area of top salience: climate and energy. There’s a lot to unpack. David Roberts is the founder of the Volts podcast, newsletter and community. He joins WITHpod to discuss the Biden administration’s record action on climate, rollbacks that would be likely during a second Trump term, why this moment is such an inflection point and more.

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0:00.0	The importance of a second Biden term is just there are lots of things that have been put in motion
0:11.2	this term that will not reach full flower like most of the money in
0:15.1	IRA hasn't gone out most of the rules are not in place most of the stuff is
0:19.5	still nascent for more years to really get this stuff put in place, get these trends going in a way
0:25.8	that they can't be reversed is incredibly important even if Biden doesn't do
0:29.7	anything additional in the next four years.
0:33.0	Just having Dims in place to let what we've already done flower
0:38.3	is hugely important.
0:41.0	Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes.
0:47.0	Well we've got another edition of the Why Is This Happening
0:56.6	2024 campaign series with Pod 2024 The Stakes.
1:00.3	This year we have been focusing on this campaign on this special series on the podcast in which we take a look at the two major party presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump who for the first time since 1892 have both already served as president.
1:16.0	Has it happened in a very, very long time. It's not speculative. You don't have to
1:19.8	imagine what each of these men would do as president.
1:23.3	They have both been president.
1:24.5	They both have records.
1:25.8	And so what we do on this WithPOD 2024, the Steak series,
1:29.4	is we take a single issue and we look at just what the records of the two men was in office
1:34.8	legislatively, administratively in terms of executive orders and the like.
1:38.3	We've done episodes on abortion rights, on taxes on immigration.
1:41.9	Today, arguably, I think in a civilizational sense,
1:44.8	not even really arguably, the most important issue
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