{"id":14860,"date":"2023-11-30T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T02:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14860"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:26:43","slug":"biden-gets-the-lead-out-and-other-examples-of-exactly-what-the-government-should-be-doing-bradcast-11302023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14860","title":{"rendered":"Biden Gets the Lead Out, and Other Examples of &#8216;Exactly What the Government Should be Doing&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 11\/30\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Biden-CSWind112923_113023.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;ve got an unusually large amount of somewhat encouraging environmental-related news on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. We apologize in advance. Don&#8217;t worry. It&#8217;s not all good.<\/p>\n<p>Among today&#8217;s stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/40-inches-snow-expected-hit-northeast-lake-effect-storm-rcna127137\">More than 40 inches of snow<\/a> fell on parts of the <b>Northeast<\/b> over the past two days. Desi Doyen explains why that may &#8212; or may not be (though probably is) &#8212; related to climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s very narrow gag order in his $250 million civil fraud trial in <b>New York<\/b>, meant to bar him from attacking the court clerk &#8212; which had resulted in hundreds of vile death threats against her &#8212; has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/11\/30\/new-york-court-reinstates-trumps-gag-orders-in-civil-fraud-case-00129322\">reinstated by the state appeals court<\/a>. Trump and his lawyers are pretending this is the greatest &#8220;tragedy&#8221; and injustice in world history. Shortly after the <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=2yAOg8Zx5CTVK5fRESuAVA==\">ruling [PDF]<\/a> was handed down, Trump began posting attacks on social media against the Judge&#8217;s wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>OPEC+<\/b> member states, including cartel leader <b>Saudi Arabia<\/b>, <b>Russia<\/b> and others, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/opec-oil-prices-saudi-arabia-russia-b7e7be4f92afc9ad1ba35830aa0da818\">announced<\/a> they will be cutting oil production in 2024 in hopes of raising your gas prices in an election year. They had already cut production in late 2022, but, thanks in part to record U.S. oil production under the Biden Administration, prices came down anyway. (Yes, we realize that&#8217;s the oppose of what you&#8217;ve been told by Republicans.) Sick of manipulation of global gas prices by foreign adversaries hoping to interfere in U.S. elections? We&#8217;ve got a few answers to that in the rest of today&#8217;s show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>Biden Interior Dept.<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/USDOI\/bulletins\/37d90ba\">announced<\/a> on Thursday that it had invested some $468 million to advance wildfire resilience and a temporary increase in pay for firefighters across the nation under the Administration&#8217;s &#8220;Investing in America&#8221; agenda, as wildfire season gets longer and more deadly thanks to our climate crisis. (The Biden-Harris Administration says it is working hard to find a way to make those pay increases permanent. But GOP members of Congress may have to play along.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>Biden EPA<\/b> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/30\/climate\/epa-lead-drinking-water-pipes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU0.Hgnj.e_p_en_lfia-&#038;smid=url-share\">announced<\/a> some <i>very<\/i> big news on Thursday. The Administration has proposed new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/11\/30\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-action-to-protect-communities-from-lead-exposure\/\">restrictions on lead levels<\/a> in drinking water that will result in all 9 million of the nation&#8217;s lead water pipes &#8212; which can cause brain damage and behavior disorders, particularly in children &#8212; being replaced over the next 10 years! &#8220;To finally have a rule that mandates the removal of lead pipes is exactly what the government should be doing,&#8221;\u009d declared the Michigan pediatrician whose research first discovered the 2014 <b>Flint, Michigan<\/b> lead poisoning water crisis. This is very <i>very<\/i> good news and, yes, <i>exactly<\/i> the sort of thing that the federal government should be doing &#8212; and should have done <i>long<\/i> ago!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But for, perhaps, the best examples of the federal government doing what it should be doing to help Americans this week came from <b>Joe Biden<\/b>&#8216;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/11\/29\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-how-bidenomics-is-mobilizing-investments-in-clean-energy-manufacturing-and-creating-good-paying-jobs-in-communities-around-the-country-pueblo-co\/\">remarks<\/a> at a wind turbine manufacturing plant in <b>Pueblo, Colorado<\/b> on Wednesday. It is the largest such plant in the world, and will be even larger soon thanks to a number of pieces of legislation adopted during his Presidency. In his remarks, Biden touted the Administration&#8217;s multifaceted jobs and manufacturing agenda &#8212; via bills such as the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS Act and more &#8212; which has resulted in a clean energy jobs and manufacturing boom across the country. In this case, he was speaking in the district of &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/47Au9wh\">pushing back at<\/a> &#8212; handsy far-right Republican Congresswoman <b>Lauren Boebert<\/b> and other Republicans who voted against <i>all<\/i> of the measures that have brought thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars to her own district. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14859\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with a suspiciously high ratio of good to bad news for a change today.  It must be something in the water today. Hopefully it&#8217;s not lead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-TrumpGagOrderNY-OPECCuts-IntFireFunding-EPALeadPipes-BidenCleanEnergyJobsCA_113023.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got an unusually large amount of somewhat encouraging environmental-related news on today&#8217;s BradCast. We apologize in advance. Don&#8217;t worry. It&#8217;s not all good. Among today&#8217;s stories&#8230; More than 40 inches of snow fell on parts of the Northeast over the past two days. Desi Doyen explains why that may &#8212; or may not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,1249,543,37,299,869,479,1611,200,451,548,320,477,1635,1277,305,50,111,540,300,534,738,1224,186,541],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-brazil","category-climate-change","category-colorado","category-democrats","category-dept-of-interior","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-environment","category-epa","category-extreme-weather","category-joe-biden","category-kpfk","category-lauren-boebert","category-letitia-james","category-michigan","category-new-jersey","category-new-york","category-oil","category-republicans","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-trump-organization","category-united-nations","category-wind","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14860"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}