Weeds Time Machine: The Clean Air Act

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up! The Weeds Time Machine is back. Today, Dylan Matthews, Dara Lind, and special guest Maureen Cropper, economist and professor at the University of Maryland, travel back in time to the 1970s to discuss one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation of the 20th century: the Clean Air Act. References: White paper: Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds co-host, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.
0:05.6	The young gentleman's name would be...
0:08.3	Oliver, Oliver Twist.
0:10.7	...with Brian Cox as Fagan.
0:12.9	What have you seen? Street boy.
0:14.9	Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes.
0:19.3	Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer.
0:21.3	I love you, baby.
0:22.3	...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.
0:25.7	Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.
0:32.0	Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:37.1	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like...
0:41.2	It was so, it was all wrapped up, but it was so obvious where it was obviously
0:44.2	because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so
0:46.9	guess.
0:47.6	For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now,
0:51.6	so for that one change me a little.
0:53.9	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
1:13.8	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Leeds.
1:16.4	I'm your host Dylan Matthews and today we are traveling back in time.
1:24.4	That's right folks, the Leeds Time Machine is back.
1:30.6	In the beginning there was energy without source, without destination.
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