One Year On, How Has the Inflation Reduction Act Impacted Climate Action in the U.S.?

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It's been a year since Joe Biden signed the Climate Action Act into law, and in an interview with Aol News, former Biden climate adviser Gina McCarthy says that while there are "going to be challenges...

right now, all we're seeing is remarkable private sector investment" in renewable energy.

"We're talking about wind now that's being developed in the US," she says.

"And even in New York, we have now wind turbines being constructed."

McCarthy says the Climate Action Act has taught the administration how to work with Republicans at the state level to make the transition away from fossil fuels.

"We're learning some lessons here," she says.

"In the Inflation Reduction Act, people were worried that maybe red states and Republican leaders in those states wouldn't take advantage of these resources," she says.

"That's proven to be very incorrect because it's real money that really matters."

She says the administration is "learning some lessons" from California, which passed its own cap-and-trade law but has yet to implement it.

"There is an urgent need for more resources to combat climate change, to facilitate this transition away from fossil fuels," she says.

"But because of stalled conversations with Republicans in Congress

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