Today President Biden signed the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act, which includes several measures to combat climate change.
On a sultry June day, climate scientist James Hansen testified in front of a committee of the U.S. Senate, telling those assembled that “the greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now.“ That was in 1988.
Everyone needs to realize that this must only be the beginning of a series of climate packages designed to make up for decades of climate inaction. The road ahead is still quite daunting, in terms of meeting emissions targets designed to keep climate damages to a bare minimum. But if we’ve done it before, we can do it again and again and again until we get the job done.
But this is a down payment; it is not full climate victory. No one bill was ever going to do it all. This will get us on a pathway to cutting carbon pollution by 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That’s really important, but we need to go even further.
The more than 725-page Senate bill has nearly $370-billion investments to address greenhouse gas emissions and about $60 billion to advance environmental justice and health equity. Given the urgency of the climate crisis and the disparate impact on disadvantaged communities, the amount set aside for environmental justice is inadequate.
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