What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What All That Money for Green Tech in the Climate Bill Is Buying
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Inflation Reduction Act is spurring progress towards new climate technology that, at times, sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. Will it make a dent in the fight against climate change?
Guest: Pranshu Verma
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:05.1 | For my next drink, I will combine Toffee, Coffee and Magic. Behold a Starbucks Toffee Nut Lotte, |
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| 1:33.5 | apply. As someone who spent six years covering Capital Hill and the White House, |
| 1:42.0 | I can tell you that official Washington likes to call things by weird names, names that serve |
| 1:47.9 | political purposes. Take, for example, the Inflation Reduction Act. With the Inflation Reduction |
| 1:54.4 | Act, this Senate Democratic majority has achieved what countless others have come to Washington, |
| 2:00.9 | promising to do but ultimately failed to deliver. Okay, fine, Chuck Schumer, whatever you say. |
| 2:08.6 | The truth is, this bill is about climate change, no matter what Senate Democrats had to call it |
| 2:13.6 | to get West Virginia's Joe Manchin on board. So you could give this thing a few other names. |
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