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A New Theory About Why Biden’s Big Climate Law Failed
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in 2022, Democrats imagined he was setting a new policy feedback loop in motion. Voters would see how the law was changing their communities — investing in new factories and solar farms — and then rally to protect it from Republicans.
That didn’t happen. Last summer, Republicans in Congress repealed many of the law’s best climate policies. So what broke down?
On this episode of Shift Key, Rob is joined by Alexander Gazmararian, a political science professor at the University of Michigan and the co-author of a new paper about…
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