An Expert Watches Biden's Clean-Energy Dream Walk a Tightrope
To drive decarbonization, Princeton University professor Jesse Jenkins says Democrats need to look beyond the framework of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators speak to the media following infrastructure negations at the White House on June 24.
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President Biden managed to come together last week with a group of 21 Senators to wrangle a bipartisan $579 billion infrastructure package that included funding towards old-fashioned projects such as bridges and highways. There's some money, too, for mass transit, research and development for clean energy technologies of the future. It should have been a victory lap. Instead all hell broke loose.