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Podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin
Episode: Climate Change is Real. Now What?
Description: On March 31, the Biden administration released the American Jobs Plan, which establishes broad goals for achieving a cleaner and more equitable future, including significant investments in green jobs like caregiving and clean energy infrastructure. On April 22—Earth Day—Biden further raised the stakes, committing the U.S. to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Even still, there are legislators at local, state and federal levels that continue to deny climate change as real.Meanwhile, in Flint, Michigan, after a five-year water crisis, reports say the water is now clean—but many locals...