TheVoiceOfJoyce It’s sad, the Climate bill has passed with $370Billion to be spent over 10 yrs. If implemented, they say, we’ll achieve 40% reduction in greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, this years Climate crisis, cost Americans $165 Billion and loss of life. We’re experiencing drought along the Colorado River that’s cutting water to communities. We’ve seen excessive cold, floods, glacier melt. We’re told we must stop using fossil fuels, yet we’re drilling and creating tremendous liquid gas reserves. This makes no sense. 2023 can’t be a better year , weather wise, unless we implement conservation programs now!

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www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/30/key-us-climate-emergency-moments-2022

The sweeping IRA will funnel more than $370bn over the next decade to advance clean energy projects, encourage people to buy electric cars, and wrest the initiative on renewables manufacturing and technology away from China.

The IRA was stripped of most of its “sticks” to force down pollution, thanks to the coal-tinged influence of Senator Joe Manchin, and is instead an assortment of “carrots” to encourage companies to go green. But, in all, analysts expect the bill will help slash US emissions by about 40% by 2030, based on 2005 levels.

This still won’t be enough. The White House and scientists say US emissions must be cut in half this decade to avert disastrous global heating, and additional laws and regulatory action on pollution from cars, trucks, industry and other sources will need to be cobbled together to reach this point.

But the summer breakthrough provided proof that the US was not a lost cause on climate and that the long-delayed task of scaling down planet-heating emissions was now within reach.

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