In deference to a key US Senate vote Biden and Democrats need to pass their looming legislative agenda….
They WILL cut out money for wind, solar and nuclear energy programs so that the country contiues to favor fossil fuels like coal and gas to generate electricity …
Welcome to the real world….
West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin comes from a coal and natural gas producing state….
He IS protecting the people who sent him to Congress….
Biden’s agenda WILL bend….
It has no choice….
His admin will try other means to go at the issue…..
Anyone who thought this was coming out different does NOT know their politics…
Biden , Obama and other admin people will be going to a European Climate Summit having to deal with their inability to get their own programs running to help climate change hampered by their own party people….
The most powerful part of President Biden’s climate agenda — a program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy — will likely be dropped from the massive budget bill pending in Congress, according to congressional staffers and lobbyists familiar with the matter.
Senator Joe Manchin III, the Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia whose vote is crucial to passage of the bill, has told the White House that he strongly opposes the clean electricity program, according to three of those people. As a result, White House staffers are now rewriting the legislation without that climate provision, and are trying to cobble together a mix of other policies that could also cut emissions.
A White House spokesman, Vedant Patel, declined to comment on the specifics of the bill, saying, “the White House is laser focused on advancing the president’s climate goals and positioning the United States to meet its emission targets in a way that grows domestic industries and good jobs.”
A spokeswoman for Mr. Manchin, Sam Runyon, wrote in an email, “Senator Manchin has clearly expressed his concerns about using taxpayer dollars to pay private companies to do things they’re already doing. He continues to support efforts to combat climate change while protecting American energy independence and ensuring our energy reliability.”
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The $150 billion clean electricity program was the muscle behind Mr. Biden’s ambitious climate agenda. It would reward utilities that switched from burning fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and penalize those that do not.
Experts have said that the policy over the next decade would drastically reduce the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet and that it would be the strongest climate change policy ever enacted by the United States….
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Democratic presidents have tried but failed to enact climate change legislation since the Clinton administration. During a year of record and deadly droughts, wildfires, storms and floods that scientists say are worsened by climate change, Democrats had hoped to finally garner enough political support to enact a strong climate law, even as scientific reports say that the window is rapidly closing to avoid the most devastating impacts of a warming planet.
“Anyone who thinks this is coming out different doesnt know their politics…”
Who is “anyone” Homer?
I don’t know of anyone here who doesn’t understand the political process ; however, if you do?
Name them.
James sure does love his fossil fuels. Almost as much as he hates paying taxes.