HILL ENERGY BRIEFING: Democrats Struggle to Replace Climate Program

摘要

Democrats struggled to fill the void created by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)’s opposition to a key climate program, with hopes fading that Congress will reach agreement on climatelegislation 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, who holds a swing vote in the evenly divided Senate, recentlytold the White House he wouldn’t support it.