Senate infrastructure bill leaves out Clean Electricity Standard and jobs-focused Climate Corps sought by Biden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : On top of setting such kinds of targets, these standards often create a market for trading clean energy credits.
55% : And though details vary from state to state, clean electricity standards share a primary goal: replacing electricity from fossil fuels with zero-emission electricity from renewables and other sources by requiring utilities to produce a certain percentage of their electricity using clean energy sources like wind and solar, by a target date.
54% : The White House says the bipartisan deal is just the first step, with a proposed $3.5 trillion, Democratic-only package following close behindThe Senate's $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package includes more than $150 billion to boost clean energy and promote "climate resilience" against already displacing more Americans.
54% : The White House has pledged to transform the nation's heavily fossil fuel-powered CL00, -0.74% economy into one dominated by renewable energy and to halt emissions from U.S. power plants by 2035.
52% : The Senate version notably omits mention of a Clean Electricity Standard, a key element of Biden's climate plan that would require the electric grid to replace fossil fuels with renewable sources such as solar, wind and hydropower.
49% : The Senate's bill also excludes a Civilian Climate Corps, a favored "pro-jobs" Biden project and a nod to the Great Depression-era New Deal that proponents said would put millions of Americans to work on conservation projects, renewable energy and helping communities recover from climate disasters.
36% : "And second, we said, 'You know what, we're not going to do it by raising taxes.

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