U.S. Senate Climate Deal 'Transformative', Backers Say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : She said the bill would boost American manufacturing in everything from batteries to solar energy to electric vehicles and contains the largest environmental justice investment ever.
62% :Heather Zichal, the head of American Clean Power, a group of renewable energy companies, said Congress is now close to passing "the biggest climate and clean energy investment in American history."
60% : Early versions of the bill had $555 billion in tax breaks for clean energy such as wind and solar power as well as batteries and nuclear reactors.
55% : The nearly $370 billion in climate and energy security measures in the budget reconciliation deal U.S. Senate Democrats struck on Wednesday were whittled down from previous versions of the bill, but highly praised by backers of clean energy.

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