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The Senate’s Stimulus Bill Is Full of Disappointments for Climate Advocates
While there will be future rounds of stimulus, the wind and solar industries may have already suffered irreparable damage.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives a thumbs up as he returns to his office after his opening remarks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. McConnell said “the Senate is going to stand together and pass this historic relief package today.”
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There was hope among some climate activists in the U.S. that the federal stimulus to address Covid-19 might be the moment to both heal the economy and advance a long-overdue transition to clean energy.
Whatever they’d envisioned, the $2 trillion bill agreed to by the Senate in the wee hours of Wednesday morning wasn’t it.