Voters Have Complicated Views Of Biden's Climate Action

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The White House describes the $369 billion of spending inside the Inflation Reduction Act as the biggest investment in combating climate change in the history of the world — but climate-minded voters remains frustrated about concessions he's made to allow fossil fuel extraction as the country continues to face extreme temperatures and billion-dollar disasters.

This episode: White House reporter Deepa Shivaram, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and climate correspondent Nate Rott.

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0:23.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:25.0	I'm Deepa Shiverham, I cover the White House.
0:26.9	And I'm Tamra Keith, I also cover the White House.
0:29.8	Today on the show, we're going to talk about climate policy.
0:32.3	And who better to do that with than NPR's Nate Rott from our climate team?
0:36.0	Hey Nate.
0:36.7	Oh hey, thanks for having me.
0:39.6	Good to have you.
0:40.6	So there are a lot of things to cover on the climate policy front,
0:44.0	but let's start with this.
0:45.6	The Biden administration promised to cut US greenhouse gas pollution to 50% by the end of the decade.
0:52.1	And that 50% cut we should point out is based on levels from 2005.
0:56.4	There's been a lot thrown at this goal, right, from provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure
1:00.9	law to federal lands protections.
1:02.7	But the big thing, the thing that the Biden administration calls the biggest climate law
1:06.3	in world history, which is called the Inflation Reduction Act,
1:10.2	is set to invest $369 billion into curbing emissions.
1:15.7	So how far does that go toward achieving Biden's emissions pledge?
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