Congress Kickstarts Clean Energy with Inflation Reduction
Progress through politics comes in awkward jumbles. On Aug. 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376). The legislation represented about a year of back-and-forth negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a moderate who had become the biggest hurdle to his own party’s ambitious political objectives.
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