Opinion by Eugene Robinson: Joe Manchin’s climate deal isn’t enough, but it’s still a miracle
to produce clean vehicles, along with up to $20 billion in loans to build new electric car manufacturing facilities. There are tax credits and grants for clean commercial vehicles as well — presumably such as the fleet of electric delivery trucks Amazon plans to deploy. If it’s corporate welfare, at least it’s in the national interest. $30 billion in grants and loans to help state governments and utility companies accelerate the transition to clean sources of electric power.
low-income families to use energy-efficient home appliances and offer tax credits for the next decade to consumers who make their homes more efficient by installing heat pumps, solar panels and other emissions-free or energy-saving devices.The bill encourages and enables each of us — as individuals, as families, as neighborhoods — to do our part. Climate change is such a huge problem that it seems overwhelming. None of us can solve it alone.
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