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President Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes roughly $370 billion in tax credits and other programs to expand clean energy and reduce planet-warming pollution. The law invests in: Clean energy: The United States has enough wind and solar resources to power the country many times over, according to a report by Environment America Research & Policy Center.
Education Fund found clean-up efforts stalled when polluters were not responsible for funding cleanup. Also enacted: a methane emissions reduction program and $50 million to inventory and protect old-growth forests, which absorb global-warming carbon emissions, on National Forest System land.
Environment Campaigns Director Matt Casale issued the following statement: 'America won't have a safe, secure future if we don't rein in the pollution that's harming our health and wreaking havoc with our climate. The Inflation Reduction Act makes great strides on both fronts. It will make polluters pay to clean up toxic waste, which is good news for the one in six Americans living near a toxic Superfund site.
thanks President Biden and Congress for enacting this law. But, it's far from perfect. The law's subsidies for fossil fuel companies are counterproductive and a waste of taxpayer dollars. And, some members of Congress now want to gut environmental protections to make it easier to build pipelines and other fossil fuel projects-which would be a big leap in the wrong direction.
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