The Inflation Reduction Act is being celebrated as the most important piece of climate legislation in the history of this country. That’s “a pretty low bar,” ElizKolbert says, “because they’ve never really passed a piece of legislation on climate change.”
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Last week, after more than a year of drama and deal-cutting, the Senate passed a complicated piece of legislation called the Inflation Reduction Act. Its name notwithstanding, it’s being celebrated as the most important piece of climate legislation in the history of this country. And that is “a pretty low bar,” the staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells David Remnick, “because they’ve never really passed a piece of legislation on climate change.
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