Podcast
EPA’s ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity
In this Political Climate Newsflash episode, we feature an interview with EPA’s Lisa Garcia about making the most of infrastructure funding.
Some of the most important news doesn’t make big, splashy headlines. That can be because developments unfold slowly or are super-wonky, or simply get overlooked in a busy news cycle. That’s why the Political Climate team is creating a new Newsflash series, a monthly episode in your Political Climate feed in which we’ll bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a news story you might have missed.
In this inaugural episode, host Julia Pyper and producer Maria Virginia Olano bring you snippets from an interview with Lisa Garcia, a regional administrator at the EPA, about the work the agency is doing to deploy funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed last year. It’s a huge, important topic that’s gotten far too little media coverage. As Garcia put it, “The infusion of funding for infrastructure is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
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Recommended reading:
- Canary Media: Q&A with Lisa Garcia: Getting environmental justice right at the EPA
- EPA Fact Sheet: EPA & the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Electrek: Biden administration kicks off $5 billion electric Clean School Bus program
- The Hill: Congress needs to support EPA’s environmental protection infrastructure