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Environmental Justice Priorities in the Green Bank
27 billion dollars, so that it as pretty much intact, amazing, a lot of money. 15 billion of the 27, so more than half, about 55 %, is for disadvantage communities. And these were the priorities of many groups in the environmental just movement,. and i'm thrilled to see them in the text.
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Speaker 3
Didn't you already add pickled onion? Yeah, I want crispy and crazy. I've totally done that,
Speaker 2
I'm like, I'm like, I'm I'm like, I'm like, like, I'm like, I'm Onion is top tier for me, potato's a top tier for me. I know that you want, I don't know if I can give it, I don't know if I can get into the golden plate. I'm trying to get myself there. But to me, it just doesn't cut it. Wow. I think it's 3.754.
Speaker 1
So I think it's- You're not even gonna get an extra time to get it up to four, to get up to the bare minimum threshold to get up on the elevated bed? You know what? My two friends like it a lot. I'll give it four forks. Wow. Four salad forks. Four salad forks, which means it gets a big green thumbs up collectively. No. And ends up... I will not give it the big green thumbs up. You're giving it a green thumbs down despite giving it four salad forks?
Speaker 2
No, I stay this way. I stay in the middle. Wow. Yeah. What happens to a gladiator if you give them the one in the middle? I don't know. I think they bring out the duel of fates chair. We'll find out in gladiator two. Maybe there is a there. Maybe a middle maybe there's a middle thumb. It's
Speaker 3
like just right at. I don't know. Right at three o'clock.
Speaker 2
It seems like that like the Emperor or whatever is like kind of like not is it Emperor. I have no idea. I'd be an Emperor. I'm
Speaker 3
sure whoever it is. Caesar. There we go.
Speaker 1
Caesar. Yeah. He's unsure of to do. Yeah. Well, that also gives you a fun bit too. You could be as the emperor. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You kind of react into the crowd playing it up a little bit. You don't put the land on the thumbs up. Is that not what Joaquin did? He does, he does egg him on a little bit. I don't know if he goes, whoa. Whoa. I can't control this crazy thing. Whoa. All right. And
Speaker 3
he made out with his sister. I think that's more. That's true. He did more than that.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah, they were going
Speaker 3
all the way. This used to be a society. You know what? I will give it a green thumbs up. It gets real close. Wow. Wow, welcome to the Elevator Daddy. I'm gonna remember this when I'm ruling the world. In the apocalypse. I'm gonna remember this. That
Speaker 1
was our review of Sweet Potatoes. Casey, how do you feel about Sweet Potatoes? You're a Sweet Potato fan? I like Sweet Potatoes. I'd go four. You'd go four, yeah. Yeah. And Emilia, you're just coming back with what we got for our segment, but where would you land on Sweet Potatoes? Jesus.
Speaker 2
I don't think about them. Okay.
Speaker 1
You don't think about them. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I can't. They just don't enter your head. Yeah, I can't give a score in good conscience, I just. How
Speaker 1
often do you lead a sweet potato? She's abstaining.
Speaker 2
It'd be like a few times a year. Okay. But I don't consciously think about it, it's kinda like religion. I don't really think about or anything.
Speaker 1
Right. Yeah. What
Speaker 2
the hell? So you're
Speaker 1
comparing sweet
Speaker 3
potatoes to God. Yeah, just
Speaker 2
so I don't have an opinion. I love it. I love it. I don't think about it. It doesn't come up much. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I abstain. Let her deliver. Get into the segment. I feel bad that she's holding Yeah, you've got your arm full of stuff. Sorry. You didn't need to take your position. I didn't talk about God while she's holding all
Speaker 3
this shit. We don't
Speaker 1
talk about God much on this podcast. It is a Christian podcast. It is
Speaker 2
a Christian podcast.
Speaker 1
We should talk about it a little bit more. We should. We should
Speaker 3
more. I talked about microplastics and
Speaker 2
cum. You did talk about that, yeah. The new God. The new God. Your
Speaker 3
Lego baby, that's the new god.
Speaker 2
What the fuck is going on here, by the way? So Emilia,
Speaker 1
for audio listeners, Emilia has a selection of various, I think these are all sweet potato chips, or sweet potato adjacent. So we have some sweet potato chips, and then we also have some sweet potato beverages. These look to be some eat some v8 varietals. So I guess we're gonna have some some sips of these. Do you what is your juice intake?
In this episode, two Volts favorites — Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins and UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes — join me discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, the somewhat miraculous last-minute agreement between Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer. It represents the tattered remains of Build Back Better, but many if not most of the climate and clean energy provisions remain intact. We discuss what's in the bill and reasons to be excited about it.
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