Climate Change: overview of related provisions of House-passed Build Back Better legislation

Build Back Better and American Climate Leadership If we, once again, kick the “climate can” down the road, we should be prepared for the road to be flooded, washed away, covered in debris, and possibly surrounded by burning forests. Steve Cohen State of the Planet

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Biden’s Build Back Better bill that includes several social welfare and family support provisions. It also includes a critically important program to accelerate the reduction of America’s greenhouse gases. If we are to ever mitigate greenhouse gasses and reduce global warming, this bill is essential to demonstrate that America is serious and will provide an example for other nations to emulate. The bill includes a fee on large companies that leak methane. I think that fee has little chance of surviving the Senate version of this sausage-making process. I don’t know which climate provisions of the bill will survive, but the remaining ones have broad political appeal and may well be enacted before the year ends.

According to Coral Davenport of the New York Times, the bill passed by the House includes:

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