<p>When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in 2022, Democrats imagined he was setting a new policy feedback loop in motion. Voters would see how the law was changing their communities — investing in new factories and solar farms — and then rally to protect it from Republicans.</p><p>That didn’t happen. Last summer, Republicans in Congress repealed many of the law’s best climate policies. So what broke down?</p><p>On this episode of Shift Key, Rob is joined by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alexgaz.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Alexander Gazmararian</u></a>, a political science professor at the University of Michigan and the co-author of a new paper about why the IRA had limited political returns. Rob and Alex discuss whether voters noticed the climate law, the trade-off between taking credit for policies and de-polarizing them, and why politicians’ credibility matters so much when designing economic policy.</p><p>Shift Key is hosted by Robinson Meyer, the founding executive editor of Heatmap News.</p><p>You can find a full transcript of the episode <a href="https://heatmap.news/podcast/shift-key-s3-e35-biden-climate-law-transcript" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><strong>Mentioned:</strong></p><p>The new paper:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2526802123" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns</u></a></p><p>Rob’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/climate-change-green-vortex-america/619228/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>original article about the ‘Green Spiral’</u></a></p><p>From Heatmap:&nbsp;<a href="https://heatmap.news/politics/renewable-energy-texas-senate-voting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Does More Renewable Energy Lead to More Political Support? Not in Texas.</a></p><p>From Heatmap:&nbsp;<a href="https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/form-energy-google-deal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Inside Form Energy’s Big Google Data Center Deal</u></a></p><p>--</p><p>This episode of Shift Key is sponsored by …</p><p>Accelerate your clean energy career with&nbsp;<strong>Yale’s online certificate programs</strong>. Explore the 10-month Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program or the 5-month Clean and Equitable Energy Development program. Use referral code&nbsp;<strong>HeatMap26</strong>&nbsp;and get your application in by the priority deadline for $500 off tuition to one of Yale’s online certificate programs in clean energy. Learn more at&nbsp;<a href="https://cbey.yale.edu/online-learning-opportunities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>cbey.yale.edu/online-learning-opportunities</u></a>.</p><p>Music for Shift Key is by Adam Kromelow.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>