Welcome back to A Matter of Degrees! While we’ve been hard at work producing season three of the show, the climate movement has been going through a lot of twists and turns. Most recently, after announcing he would not support climate investments in a budget reconciliation deal, Senator Joe Manchin abruptly made a historic climate deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA).
The bill includes $369 billion of climate investments. We can’t overstate the significance of this opportunity — modeling shows the IRA, if passed, would cut emissions 37-41% below 2005 levels by 2030. That gets us 80% of the way to cutting emissions in half this decade and meeting President Biden’s climate goals. In this bonus episode, we acknowledge the harmful flaws in the deal, lay out the modeling of its climate impacts, and call on first the Senate, then the House of Representatives to vote and pass it now.
This episode features a live conversation co-hosted by Evergreen Action, featuring Senator Ed Markey, Representative Pramila Jayapal, and Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
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A Farming Solution for a Hotter, Less Stable World
Green Jobs...For All?
Healing the Soil, Healing Ourselves
‘Let’s Go Get Us A Clean Electricity Standard’
The ‘Prestige Problem’ Making Fossil Fuels Powerful
Biden's Climate Plan Could Reshape America (Live w/ Julian NoiseCat)
The State of Global Climate Talks (Live w/ Mary Robinson)
The ‘Darth Vader’ of Electric Utilities
Presenting: How to Save a Planet
The Stages of Black Climate Grief
Changing Woman: One Navajo’s Fight for a Just Transition
Cleaning Up the Carbon Mess
After Trump: The Silver Linings Playbook
The Big Fossil Fuel Bailout
An Electric Number: 2035
A Breakthrough Moment?
Give Up Your Climate Guilt
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