During a Zoom session with environmental activists last week, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., suggested the Senate should act in time for President Joe Biden’s March 1 State of the Union address, a timeline she said was not the result of any naivete or idealism on her part.
“It’s because I actually spoke to Sen. Manchin,” she said. “Over several months I’ve been speaking to him, and the climate provisions as they are crafted are crafted with and by him.”
In fact, it was in large part due to Manchin’s concerns that Democrats made a number of changes to their original proposals, paring back spending levels, ditching a Clean Electricity Performance Program that would have pushed utilities to switch to renewable energy sources, and tweaking a methane fee to phase in its implementation and provide $775 million in EPA funding to help companies cover their compliance costs.
Despite those changes, a number of environmental groups and their allies on Capitol Hill have touted what remains in the bill, saying it would still represent the largest congressional action ever on climate. Jayapal said the bill’s climate provisions would help achieve the goal of significantly reducing carbon emissions in the coming years.
“We believe that the things that we have crafted in the current investments in Build Back Better will take us a very long way towards reaching that goal,” Jayapal said.
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