Joe Biden was the best American president on climate change by maybe three orders of magnitude. Yet it didn’t cement a Kamala Harris victory in 2024, and Trump has since rolled back most of Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Today, the Left Anchor hosts interview UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes about her upcoming book The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet. They talk about her role in the passage of the IRA, what’s left of it, what Trump’s victory says about climate policy, and what we should do next time.
Check out Leah’s newsletter here, her podcast A Matter of Degrees here, and her Atlantic piece about the political success of Bidenomics here.
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