Hank: the Inflation Reduction Act will cut US CO2 emissions by roughly a billion tons a year by 2030 (2022)
prediction · status: due 2030; outcome not yet known · last event: predicted (2022-08-12) · owner: Hank
In August 2022 Hank predicted that the Inflation Reduction Act would cut US carbon dioxide emissions by roughly a billion tons a year by 2030, most of it from power generation and transportation.
About: Inflation Reduction Act, carbon dioxide
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-12 | predicted | By 2030 the bill cuts about a billion tons of CO2 a year: transport 280 million, power 360 million, industry 130 million, buildings about 70 million. | The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? 00:17:21 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank says Joe Biden is probably signing today the largest single piece of climate legislation any country has ever enacted. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank: Finding coverage thin on detail, Hank researched the bill himself: nonpartisan analyses, CBO reports, their authors, the EPA administrator and the 700-page bill text. — 00:00:00
- 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — The description says the bill will have a huge, mostly unnoticed impact for years, as good legislation does, though some parts won't work and will make news. — video description
- 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank frames the bill's first two goals: decrease carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, and make climate, pollution and energy-shift impacts less harmful to people, especially the most disadvantaged. — 00:04:54
- 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank: The bill's third goal, key to understanding it, is to make the US an industrial centre of the clean technology revolution. — 00:05:23
- 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank represents the bill's spending as 369 blocks of a billion dollars each. — 00:05:23