Opinion | How 'Build Back Better' Could Undermine Climate Action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The CEPP envisions a new program that would reward utility companies for increasing their share of clean energy every year, and penalizing those that fall short of the goals in the law.
55% : One bit of good news came earlier this month, when the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a version of the CEPP that included a strong carbon intensity factor, which would make it nearly impossible for fracked gas plants to qualify as clean power sources.
38% : Not that we needed the reminder, but the United Nations just pointed out that our current emissions reduction goals are inadequate when compared to what is necessary to address the actual scale of the climate crisis.
36% : Under the CEPP framework, the best approach would be for Congress to heavily penalize the use of dirty energy, and restrict clean energy funding to truly clean sources such as solar and wind.

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