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Thursday, July 21st, 2022

For the Third Time in Three Decades, Congress Punts on Serious Climate Legislation

Author:     Bill McKibben
Source:     The New Yorker
Publication Date:     July 16, 2022
 Link: For the Third Time in Three Decades, Congress Punts on Serious Climate Legislation
Stephan:   History is going to condemn and vilify both Congressional Republicans and even some Democrats, for their failure to make climate change remediation one of the highest priorities of the day. People like Joe Manchin will be seen as historically significant villains. The only thing that is going to change this is the 2022 election outcome. Voters must give Democrats an overwhelming majority in both houses because for all their flaws a significant percentage of Democrats in Congress support climate change remediation. Will this happen? It's up to you, your family, and friends.
Corrupt Senator Manchin coaxed the President to strip the sticks from the Build Back Better bill which would have forced utilities toward clean energy, Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty

NASA just declared that this June has tied with that of 2020 for the hottest we have ever measured. At the moment, forecasters are predicting that, on Monday, the United Kingdom, which maintains the longest instrumental record of temperature in the world, may see the hottest day that nation has ever recorded.

This was the backdrop to the news on Thursday that Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, won’t support climate legislation, bringing to an apparent end his long and excruciating flirtation with Joe Biden over the climate portions of the Build Back Better bill, the President’s ambitious economic package, which contained the most sweeping climate measures ever to reach the Senate floor. To provide the even more excruciating context: this is the third time in the past thirty years that Congress has balked at serious climate legislation.

In July, 1997, the Senate voted 95–0 (led by another West […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 4:56 am

    Just goes to show ya, we have the best congress money can buy!