Although the Trump administration chose to stifle science and to initiate actions detrimental to the environment, the Biden administration rejoined the Paris accords immediately, has passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and hopes to pass the Build Back Better bill. Both bills support the major goals of the Green New Deal.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill, among other things, provides:
$73 billion for electric grid and power infrastructure
$55 billion for water systems and infrastructure
$39 billion for public transit
$15 billion for electric vehicles
The Build Back Better bill
Since the bill has not yet been passed, final financial details are unavailable. While much of the bill focuses on child care, education, health care, and tax relief, substantial climate change remediation provisions include:
Cut greenhouse gas pollution by over a gigaton by 2030
Environmental justice-clean energy economy-buildings, transportation, industry, electricity, agriculture
Mambers of Congress have created SEECPAC, the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, which has introduced H.R. 330, the Climate Solutions Act.
Michael Bloomberg, through Bloomberg Philanthropies, has created Beyond Carbon, “a plan to put the United States on course to 100 percent clean economy.”
With 541 chapters around the world, the Citizens Cllimate Lobby will accept a ZIP code and return contact information for your congressional representatives. This organization supports the congressional Climate Solutions Caucus started in 2016 by Carlos Curbelo and Ted Deutch, both from Florida.
To view the status of climate related congressional legislation, go to the Govtrack site.
For a historical summary of United States climate change policy, see this Wikipedia page.
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