For decades, U.S. scientists have led the world in documenting the risks of climate change, and U.S. diplomats have cast global warming as a dire threat in international fora. Those warnings rang hollow, though, because unlike many wealthy countries, the world’s second largest producer of greenhouse gases had never passed a law to substantially reduce those emissions. This summer, attempts to pass such a bill appeared doomed to fail yet again.

 

United States passes landmark climate law

BY PAUL VOOSEN

 

Then, in a legislative instant, it all changed when a key senator suddenly dropped his opposition. The climate provisions of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) amount to the biggest step the United States has ever taken to slow global warming. The legislation provides $369 billion over 10 years to support electricity from renewable sources and nuclear power, while also spurring a wholesale move to electric vehicles and research into ways to reduce industrial emissions. Several independent research groups have calculated it should put the United States on track to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by decade’s end.

 

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