ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: San Diego leaders, climate scientists and activists react to President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric SciencesOf course, the climate crisis demands lot more than what IRA can offer. ... But we should [not] let the perfect become the enemy.
I mean, it's truly incredible. And there's a significant investment in kind of the frontline communities, communities who are most impacted. There will be billions of dollars available in grants to make sure that the clean energy economy is benefiting everybody and that the communities most affected have opportunities to clean their neighborhoods first.
First of all, the IRA is a massive step forward. It's a real testament to the decades of organizing throughout the movement. However, it's also really important for me to recognize, and something that I've been feeling is there's a lot of deficits that this bill has. This is hundreds of billions of dollars less than the initial ask in what we were initially promised, along with having a lot of handouts to the fossil fuel industry.
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