While the bill is being welcomed overseas, there’s an overarching feeling that the US is simply catching up to its allies after years of inaction.
The Democrats' $369 billion climate package, the largest such investment in US history, could have significant implications for global greenhouse gas emissions and the US' standing in the world, after months of uncertainty in Congress undermined the Biden administration's claims that"America is back."
US officials are hoping it puts them in a better position for difficult negotiations to come: the international climate talks in Egypt this fall. What's in the Manchin-Schumer deal on climate, health care and taxesThe inability of US lawmakers to pass federal climate legislation has for years been a black eye for the country's international delegates at global climate talks.
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