“The bipartisan infrastructure deal is not a climate bill," said Jamal Raad, executive director of Evergreen Action, an advocacy group that has pushed for urgent action on climate change. “It will not include comprehensive clean energy policy, and I am not willing to support throwing climate change overboard,” Wyden said. It also would spend $55 billion to improve drinking water and wastewater systems and $47 billion in resiliency efforts to tackle climate change. “We’re not going to successfully fight climate change if we trade pipeline for pipeline’’ and oil project for oil project, he said. The bill, which will probably serve as a marker in infrastructure negotiations, includes money for electric vehicle charging stations and other elements designed to counter climate change.

Source: ABC News July 05, 2021 12:33 UTC