Category: Climate & Energy

Drawing of President Joe Biden with windmills

Joe Biden’s signature legislation passes the Senate, at last

The Economist August 9, 2022

This has been decades in the making, and it will reshape the decades ahead.” That is how Fred Krupp, a longtime champion of congressional action on climate change as head of the Environmental Defence Fund, a green group…

A look at the policies in the Democrats’ historic climate bill

PBS News August 8, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest investment in climate policy in U.S. history, including more than $300 billion to address global warming. It also sets a goal of reducing carbon emissions by…

Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate

The New York Times August 7, 2022

The Senate bill avoided the political pitfalls of past legislative attempts by offering only incentives to cut climate pollution, not taxes. In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling…

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Category: Climate & Energy

Joe Biden’s signature legislation passes the Senate, at last

A look at the policies in the Democrats’ historic climate bill

Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate

Paul Bledsoe

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