Tuesday 9 August 2022

U.S. Senate passes historic climate bill

U.S. Senate passes historic climate bill

The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 on Sunday, a $433 billion climate, energy, health, and tax bill that will set the United States on course to reduce its cumulative emissions roughly 40 percent, compared to 2005 levels, by 2030. Fifty Democratic senators voted for the bill, including centrists Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, from Arizona. Republican senators unilaterally opposed the legislation. Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote.
Read more: https://grist.org/politics/u-s-senate-passes-historic-climate-bill/?source=Snapzu

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