President Joe Biden hopes that he can push states to spur transformative
climate and equity programs nationwide using money from last year’s $550
billion infrastructure package. The problem is that states control most
of the cash and may not share his goals of tackling climate change or
reversing the effects of institutionalized racism. POLITICO’s Zack
Colman reports.

 

Kelsey Tamborrino is a reporter covering clean energy and is the host of
the POLITICO Energy podcast. 

Zack Colman covers climate change for POLITICO. 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

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Raghu Manavalan is a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.