joining me now to discuss the economic impts of climate change in action are mary anne hitt, she's the based senior director of the advocacy group climate imperative, and dharna noor, climate reporter for "the boston globe." thank you both so much for joining us. mary anne, i'd like to start with you. senator manchin, as we said, has cited the inflationary impacts of this, these proposals, which included tax credits to encourage clean energy ntives to purchase electric vehicles. how would you respond to his concerns about inflation? mary anne: the sad reality is that this bill actually would have helped address inflation because it would have helped bring energy prices down for regular americans. and that's by making clean energy, which is already cheaper than fossil fuels, more available to more people and he let that slip through his fingers. and it's a real missed opportunity for folks here in west virginia and around the country to lower our energy bills and tackle the climate crisis at the same time. ali: and dharna, mary anne just mentioned some of the impacts that actually affec