Checks and Balance: The switch - a podcast by The Economist

Plans tooverhaul American energywill soon come before Congress. There will never be a betterchance for Joe Bidento show real ambition on climate. If theblackouts in Texasare any guide, it would not just be the world that thanks him, but Americans, too. But the politics of greening America are never easy. What might the new president get done?

We hear fromJohn Kerry, Mr Biden’s climate envoy, Varshini Prakash of Sunrise, a movement of young climate activists who helped get the new president elected, and from West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, whose vote will be crucial in passing new laws.

John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor.

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