White House forced to rewrite domestic bill as it makes late bid to secure backing for international deal
President Joe Biden is likely to abandon a clean energy programme that was the centrepiece of his efforts to tackle greenhouse gas emissions at home, US media reported, because of opposition from a swing-vote Democratic senator from a state with a historically large coal industry.
Funding to replace coal- and gas-fired plants with wind, solar and nuclear generation was part of a massive budget bill that Biden is struggling to get through Congress.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/16/coal-state-democrat-set-to-scupper-biden-clean-energy-plans
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