When the House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday night, it took the largest congressional action to confront climate change in U.S. history.
and deployment. The new package also includes $73 billion for modernizing the U.S. electricity grid. Among other things, that will help transmit wind and solar power from the places where it is generated to large population centers.
Unusually for a major domestic policy initiative in an era of intense partisan divisions, the Democratic-led initiative received a handful of Republican votes in both chambers of Congress. It is now headed to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
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