When you didn't bother to hold a single hearing or markup in either chamber for your "signature" climate program, you really have nobody to blame but yourself...
Bloomberg (10/18/21) reports: "Democrats struggled to fill the void created by Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to a key climate program, with hopes fading that Congress will reach agreement on climate legislation before world leaders gather in Scotland for a summit on global warming. The Clean Electricity Payment Program has been a major priority for the White House and President Joe Biden’s goal of de-carbonizing the nation’s electric grid by 2035. The program, which would pay utilities for using clean energy and penalize those that don’t, is on life support after Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who holds a swing vote in the evenly divided Senate, recently told the White House he wouldn’t support it...Environmentalists have urged passage of significant climate legislation, such as the clean power program, before the Glasgow summit that begins Oct. 31. Biden has pledged to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by decades end. But opposition from Manchin and Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a fellow Democrat, to elements of a $3.5 trillion spending plan that was to have included the clean energy program have kept it from passing in the closely divided Senate. The House has refused to take up a separate, bipartisan infrastructure package until the bigger spending plan is adopted."
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