The 2,700-page package – which has drawn comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ – includes plans to modernise the country’s broadband. It also features environmental remediation plans – core to Biden’s climate change agenda, with plans to clean up brownfield sites, fund carbon captures and update power grids to combat extreme weather.
“It contains important provisions to equip us in our fight against climate change and protect our natural environment,” says Quill Robinson, Vice-President of Government Affairs at the American Conservation Coalition. “It’s encouraging to see this piece of legislation make it through an evenly-split Senate in such a bipartisan manner.”
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