The new UNIPCC report issues dire climate warnings, urging immediate action. The U.S. emitted 'more green gases greenhouse gases historically, so they have a greater responsibility...to be reducing more., Tracy Raczek, a former top UN climate advisor said. Will Congress act?
· $7.5 billion for electric vehicle infrastructure, to increase adoption of EVs and reduce use of emissions-generating the traditional internal combustion engine vehicles.
· $105 billion for public transit, also to reduce cars on the road and the emissions that accompany them.· $60 billion to expand clean energy transmission, expedite the smart grid, and carbon capture and hydrogen technologies. · $50 billion to increase climate resilience of infrastructure to protect communities. Communities and the federal government have spent billions rebuilding after extreme weather events, expenses the funding allocations in these bills are designed to reduce by strengthening and increasing the resilience of the infrastructure.Plus, billions to establish a clean energy standard, which has been renamed the Clean Electricity Payment Program to increase Congressional support.
The public supports these investments, according to current polling. A Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found that 70% of Americans support the $1.2 trillion so-called “hard infrastructure” bill passed in the Senate with strong bipartisan support . The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication’s poll “foundRaczek also said Biden’s infrastructure plan creates strong jobs growth.
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