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At Catholic climate conference, Paris Agreement architect challenges US church to commit to net-zero emissions
… Roman Catholic Church and said she was personally moved by the pope's calls for humanity to act in solidarity and to heal its relationship with the rest of nature. In discussing the Climate … will help. For the U.S. in particular, she said, major investments in renewables, like the Inflation Reduction Act's historic billions in funding for clean energy , will allow it to keep its …
Jun 16, 2023
Playing chicken over debt and spending bills
… in student loans, as well as his increases to the IRS budget and the green incentives in his Inflation Reduction Act. The Republican plan would also tighten work requirements for Medicaid (which provides health …
May 24, 2023
Willow drilling project in Alaska on thin ice, and other ironies of Biden's most recent broken climate promise
… of broken promises to care for our common home. While he did sign the incredibly important Inflation Reduction Act, his administration opened an area more than twice the size of the Alaska project to leasing …
May 9, 2023
Earth Day is a day of fear and hope
… officials to buck special interests and support environmental policies. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act passed last year is the most significant commitment of resources ever to fight climate …
Apr 19, 2023
Catholic resolve for sweeping climate action intensifies after latest UN report
… decreasing costs of wind and solar and recent positive policy moves by the U.S., through the Inflation Reduction Act , and the European Union. While adaptation measures have progressed, those efforts will …
Apr 6, 2023
Georgia may be turning purple. It's definitely turning green.
… Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the CHIPS Act would not have been possible without Georgia and the 2021 election of Sens. Raphael Warnock and Ossoff. When you also take the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act and Justice 40 into consideration, Georgia has played a key role in giving all …
Mar 31, 2023
Could churches be prime locations for EV charging stations? One company thinks so.
… places to power them remain few and far between in large parts of the country. And with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 incentivizing clean energy and electric cars, as well as providing investments for …
Mar 1, 2023
Biden's oil comments drew laughs, but our children's future is no joke
… a "carbon bomb." At the same time, in his State of the Union address the president touted his Inflation Reduction Act as "the most significant investment ever to tackle the climate crisis." "Let's face reality," …
Feb 9, 2023
2022 in politics: Sadly, religion contributed to our smallness
… confidence in the legislative process, but at least provisions of the Pregnant Workers Support Act, more aid to Ukraine, and increased Medicaid payments for U.S. territories like Puerto Rico made it into the final bill. In August, the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act also represented a return to normalcy, as the party that controlled both chambers …
Dec 28, 2022
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's bid for independence is a sham
… for gravitas. Sinema also single-handedly forced Democrats to remove a provision from the Inflation Reduction Act that would have finally closed the carried interest loophole in the tax code. Carried …
Dec 16, 2022