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Dems BBB inaction could doom major climate action

Episode Summary

Anxious House Democrats are warily pushing for trimming the stalled Build Back Better Act, fearing their failure to pass a bill with strong climate change provisions ahead of tough midterm elections will jeopardize their effort to ward off the worst effects of a warming planet. POLITICO’s Josh Siegel reports.

Episode Notes

Anxious House Democrats are warily pushing for trimming the stalled Build Back Better Act, fearing their failure to pass a bill with strong climate change provisions ahead of tough midterm elections will jeopardize their effort to ward off the worst effects of a warming planet. POLITICO’s Josh Siegel reports.

 

Kelsey Tamborrino is a reporter covering clean energy and the host of POLITICO Energy podcast. 

Josh Siegel is an energy and climate reporter for POLITICO.

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Carlos Prieto is an audio producer for POLITICO. 

Raghu Manavalan is a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Jenny Ament is the interim executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.