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U.S. House Democrats proposed legislation on Wednesday to restore clean energy tax credits revoked by Republicans last year through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Republicans’ landmark election security bill makes no mention of energy or the environment, but green groups and congressional climate hawks say the legislation could be detrimental to their efforts to advance a pro-climate agenda.
As Senate Republican leaders prepare to bring the “SAVE America Act” to the floor for an initial vote this week, Democrats are vowing to filibuster for as long as it takes. Their opposition is rooted in the belief that the bill could disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans by making it more difficult for them to vote.
As Democrats consider their post-midterm environmental agenda, ongoing Trump administration attacks on climate regulations are forcing them to take a more pragmatic posture.
Democrats could take over both the House and the Senate, but White House actions like the recent repeal of a scientific finding underpinning many federal climate rules are forcing congressional climate hawks to acknowledge progress will be limited next year no matter what happens at the polls.
The Trump administration’s all-out assault on climate and environmental policy is nothing new—it has been a defining feature of the president’s agenda since his first term. And yet, Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) still shocked the world on Wednesday.
The U.S. is officially no longer part of the landmark U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Politico's E&E News Sara Schonhardt reports, dealing a blow to the global effort to tackle climate change.