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Native America Calling: How the Inflation Reduction Act helps Earth
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
How the Inflation Reduction Act helps Earth
The new legislation just signed into law includes unprecedented investment into measures intended to reduce climate change.
It sends millions of dollars to tribal projects, but also keeps in place reliance on polluters. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce finds how the Inflation Reduction Act is a boost for the planet.
Guests on Native America Calling
Pilar Thomas (Pascua Yaqui), partner in the Quarles and Brady law firm’s Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Practice Group and a law professor at Arizona State University
Jordan Harmon (Muscogee Creek), policy analyst and legislative advocate for the Indigenous Environmental Network
Brett Isaac (Diné), executive chairman at Navajo Power
Jill Sherman-Warne (Hoopa), executive director for the Native American Environmental Protection Coalition and a Hoopa tribal council member
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