Biden’s New Climate Act Is About to Meet a Fierce Foe
Many of the environmental groups that have pushed hardest for decarbonization are likely to take aim at the landmark law’s implementation.
Part of a lower-carbon future.
Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America“It is not true that we need to gut our environmental protections in order to scale up green energy,” said Mahyar Sorour, deputy legislative director for Beyond Dirty Fuels at the Sierra Club. And thus goes the next chapter in the political war over whether and how the United States will join the battle against climate change.
Unlike America’s longstanding partisan stalemate – not a single Republican voted for the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law on Tuesday – the new conflict over climate policy will pit many environmental groups that have pushed hardest for the US to decarbonize against the administration’s efforts to do so.