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WATCH: @mikeallen & @Ben_Geman discuss the bold commitments being made to combat climate change in conversations with White House national climate adviser @ginamccarthy46 & @EnvDefenseFund President @FredKrupp.

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@mikeallen @Ben_Geman @ginamccarthy46 @EnvDefenseFund @FredKrupp .@ginamccarthy46:"I think everybody’s beginning to understand as the president tours sites of wildfires and flooding and other really big challenges like drought, there’s this silent killer for climate change that’s called excess heat, that really doesn’t get enough attention."

@mikeallen @Ben_Geman @ginamccarthy46 @EnvDefenseFund @FredKrupp .@ginamccarthy46 on budgets for clean energy: "That's what we're doing with industry. We're not punishing them. We're looking at opportunities for investments in our industry so we can take back some of the supply chains we've lost."

.@ginamccarthy46: "Every change I know starts at the local level starts with communities banding together and continuing to move forward. And I think young people are going to be the engine that's going to drive us."

@mikeallen @Ben_Geman @ginamccarthy46 @EnvDefenseFund @FredKrupp Environmental Defense Fund President @FredKrupp: "Right now, we don't see enough corporations lobbying on behalf of the climate sections of the reconciliation bill. This bill that's pending in Congress is a once in a decade opportunity to get something done on climate."

.@FredKrupp: "I see an enormous amount of support in the American public for moving ahead with a sort of clean energy economy that is going to create tremendous numbers of jobs, clean the air, make people healthier."