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Investments in mitigating climate pollution, around transportation, methane, power plants. so the president's build back better agenda is a shot in the arm when we look at proikting our infrastructure from the impacts of climate change and also mitigating the pollution that we are seeing that exacerbate climate change impacts. >> the interesting term, you said legacy pollution. let's pivot to the ida response, where it first landed. in louisiana right now, the new orleans saints are playing their football season up in jacksonville, florida, because their home city is still recovering from hurr...

Up their electric bills on fixed incomes or rather just deal with the type of heat that has been killing people all over the country and the world this summer. going back to your report, my producer who worked on this segment is from raly, north carolina, and have you ever thought about climb change in those terms. >> absolutely i do. i think about it from the lens of looking at number one what you laid out which is people struggling to pay their electricity bills. one of the great things about the president's build back better agenda, it's looking at the investments that will go into infrastr...

Epa released the most advanced environmental justice study to date. all of the facts and figures that you laid out are stark fact and figures that we must grapple with today. when you zoom out and take a look at this information, really, it puts the data right in front of every american, information that we have known for quite some time, that minorities and low-income communities have born a disproportionate impact to pollution for generations. and now we add climate change on top of that. this is a stark reminder that minority communities, low-income communities, and communities all this cou...

Hurricane katrina. it does leave one to wonder whether enough has been done in the past decade and a half to build up new orleans' infrastructure so that it is prepared for the major storms that now seem to corps measure frequently than ever. is that a fair criticism? and what can be done about it? >> you know, what we do know is when we take a look at hurricane katrina and the devastation that was left -- fast forward to today. the environments that were made standards curtail the impacts. so it was a good start. but the stark realities are, we have to do a lot more. and that's why the presid...

Is on strong moral ground. and more -- even more than that, he's doing the things that are most important for a christian. he is looking out for poor people, the least of these. he is looking out for workers and for the children of immigrants. so i think president biden is on firm ground here. and he should not really be attacking -- >> you know -- it's funny because i remember when i was a kid and we had the first catholic president, john kennedy, the question was, are you going to listen to your religion and the pope, or are you going to uphold the constitution? how the reverse is being aske...