Whatever This Is, It Won’t Be Build Back Better
At this point, the ideal climate bill is out of the picture. Here are two ways to make sense of Democrats’ next move.
Welcome, all. We are gathered here today to mourn Build Back Better, President Joe Biden’s overstuffed and too ambitious domestic-policy package.
It had its flaws, of course. We all do. But I am not here to dwell upon any of those. I wish, instead, to speak only of BBB’s climate provisions, because, had the bill passed, it would have been the most aggressive action against climate change we have ever seen from Congress.
Build Back Better would have prevented more than 5 billion tons of carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere, according by a team of researchers led by Jesse Jenkins, a Princeton engineering professor. Those emissions reductions would have made up more than 90 percent
