The US Senate on Sunday adopted Joe Biden’s big plan on climate and health, offering a major stage victory for the president, with less than 100 days to go before a crucial election.
With their votes alone, Democrats approved the $430 billion-plus plan, which will return to the House of Representatives next week for a final vote, before Joe Biden signs it into law.
“The road has been long and winding”
“The road has been long, difficult and winding,” stressed the leader of the Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer, just before the vote, received by thunderous applause in his field.
The fruit of difficult compromises with the right-wing of the Democratic Party, this envelope includes the largest investment ever committed in the United States for the climate: 370,000 million dollars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% in 2030.
With this reform, an American will receive up to 7,500 dollars in tax credits for the purchase of an electric car. The installation of solar panels on your roof will be covered at 30%.
Accompany companies in their energy transition
This reform must also make it possible to strengthen the resilience of forests in the face of the monstrous fires that devastate the American West and whose multiplication has been directly attributed to global warming.
Several billion dollars in tax credits will also be offered to the most polluting industries to help them in their energy transition, a measure strongly criticized by the left of the party, which had to line up behind this text, for not reaching a more ambitious agreement. after long months of negotiations.
Source: BFM TV
