The home stretch. It’s time to pay attention, call your members of Congress, and mobilize your networks. Crunch time: this is America’s last chance at serious climate policy for a decade. It’s going to be a clean energy standard & clean energy tax credits, or nothing. David Roberts explains the climate policy in the upcoming reconciliation bill, which needs all 50 Democratic votes to get past the US Senate.
Maybe Roberts is being too pessimistic: if legislation fails, there’s still executive action. But legislative action would be great.
Leah Stokes and Sam Ricketts explain how a national clean electricity standard would get the US to 80% clean electricity by 2030, and 100% by 2035.