<p>President Joe Biden has made dealing with climate change a top priority of his administration. While Congress and the White House hammer out the way that shows up in the big infrastructure package, there are relatively easy fixes that have bipartisan support. For example, phasing out the use of hydrofluorocarbons. HFCs are chemical refrigerants found in products we use every day — that do a lot of damage to the climate. Also on today&#8217;s show: More homeowners are paying their mortgage bills again, Verizon is selling Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion and how &#8220;green hydrogen” could be used to produce energy and steel with zero emissions.</p>

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The low-hanging fruit on Biden’s climate agenda

MAY 3, 202127 MIN
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The low-hanging fruit on Biden’s climate agenda

MAY 3, 202127 MIN

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President Joe Biden has made dealing with climate change a top priority of his administration. While Congress and the White House hammer out the way that shows up in the big infrastructure package, there are relatively easy fixes that have bipartisan support. For example, phasing out the use of hydrofluorocarbons. HFCs are chemical refrigerants found in products we use every day — that do a lot of damage to the climate. Also on today’s show: More homeowners are paying their mortgage bills again, Verizon is selling Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion and how “green hydrogen” could be used to produce energy and steel with zero emissions.