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Willow drilling project in Alaska on thin ice, and other ironies of Biden's most recent broken climate promise
… of broken promises to care for our common home. While he did sign the incredibly important Inflation Reduction Act, his administration opened an area more than twice the size of the Alaska project to leasing …
Earth Day is a day of fear and hope
… officials to buck special interests and support environmental policies. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act passed last year is the most significant commitment of resources ever to fight climate …
Catholic resolve for sweeping climate action intensifies after latest UN report
… decreasing costs of wind and solar and recent positive policy moves by the U.S., through the Inflation Reduction Act , and the European Union. While adaptation measures have progressed, those efforts will …
Georgia may be turning purple. It's definitely turning green.
… Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the CHIPS Act would not have been possible without Georgia and the 2021 election of Sens. Raphael Warnock and Ossoff. When you also take the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act and Justice 40 into consideration, Georgia has played a key role in giving all …
Could churches be prime locations for EV charging stations? One company thinks so.
… places to power them remain few and far between in large parts of the country. And with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 incentivizing clean energy and electric cars, as well as providing investments for …
Biden's oil comments drew laughs, but our children's future is no joke
… a "carbon bomb." At the same time, in his State of the Union address the president touted his Inflation Reduction Act as "the most significant investment ever to tackle the climate crisis." "Let's face reality," …
2022 in politics: Sadly, religion contributed to our smallness
… confidence in the legislative process, but at least provisions of the Pregnant Workers Support Act, more aid to Ukraine, and increased Medicaid payments for U.S. territories like Puerto Rico made it into the final bill. In August, the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act also represented a return to normalcy, as the party that controlled both chambers …
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's bid for independence is a sham
… for gravitas. Sinema also single-handedly forced Democrats to remove a provision from the Inflation Reduction Act that would have finally closed the carried interest loophole in the tax code. Carried …
Inflation Reduction Act clause makes it easier for churches to go green
… Mark Pattison … Catholic News Service … A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law this summer by President Joe Biden, not only increases the size of the tax …
In Advent, we hope and wait. Climate change doesn't lend itself to either.
… During the midterm election, global warming was not even an issue. We were concerned about inflation, about abortion, about who won the 2020 election and about what bathroom transgender … green light to run their state. On the other side of the aisle, Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant climate-oriented legislation in our country's history. But the …
After COP27, we can still be rays of light for creation
… emissions by 2050 . And it is important to remember that in August, the U.S. passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history that will help the nation pivot …