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So far this week, Californians have not seen the kinds of weather-generated disasters that struck last winter, with flooding in Ventura County in December and in San Diego in January, my colleague Jill Cowan reports.

Cities can put in place programs to develop new work forces that will help build solar farms, or redesign waterfronts in ways that are both resilient to climate change and strengthen local economies.

Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems is a relatively inexpensive strategy to both store planet-warming carbon and shield their residents, especially the most vulnerable, from storm surges and sea level rise.

Urban Ocean Lab identified $21.7 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden’s signature climate bill, that coastal cities could use to get ready for global warming.

For the past two years, Podesta has led the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate law that is fundamentally designed to help the U.S. compete with China on solar panels and sources of renewable energy.

But at least for now, Podesta’s appointment “reassures the international community that the United States will continue to lean into leadership on global climate action,” Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Lisa.

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