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Insight·Jun 23, 2022

Climate on the Frontlines

About a year ago, President Biden laid out his climate agenda. That agenda has since been roughly split into two Congressional actions: An infrastructure bill that passed last summer with bipartisan support, and the Build Back Better Act that still sits with the Senate.  Recently, EPIC Policy Fellow Heather McTeer Toney, vice president of community engagement for the Environmental Defense Fund, and EPIC Journalism Fellow, Lisa Friedman, a climate policy reporter for The New York Times, sat down to talk about where things stand with climate change in the United States.  Key to the discussion was the fact that the communities on the frontlines of climate impacts—often poor and minority communities—are seeing the money trickle down from the infrastructure bill and those communities are putting that money to work in building resiliency. In their eyes, Heather McTeer Toney said, we are already “building back better.”
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          • Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India
          • The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India
          • The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act
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    • India Legislators Program
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        • In the midst of an air pollution crisis, there’s another way India can better enforce emission rules
          via Scroll.in
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        • The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge with Michael Greenstone
        • View All caret-right
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        • Home Prices Increased In Communities Surrounding Protected Habitats
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        • Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India
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          • EPIC Air Quality Fund Hires Leader in Monitoring and Evaluation
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          • Indian industries swap polluted air in health fix
          • World’s first particulate matter trading scheme in Gujarat cut pollution by up to 30%, finds study
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