'This is our last chance': Biden urged to act as climate agenda hangs by a thread

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The bill includes a program of payments and penalties to ensure utilities phase out fossil fuels from America's electricity supply, a huge expansion in tax credits for clean energy and new restrictions on methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is emitted from oil and gas drilling.
57% : Senator Ed Markey, a lead proponent of the Green New Deal, said on a call with reporters this week.
56% : Manchin, a major recipient of donations from the coal industry, has said it "makes no sense" to pay utilities to phase in solar and wind power.
35% : Failure to do so will escalate what scientists have said are "irreversible" climate impacts such as disastrous heatwaves, floods, wildfires and a mass upheaval of displaced people.

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