Reconciliation package builds on Rescue Plan, bipartisan bill, targets climate change and social needs
“Politics aside, the current reconciliation bill under consideration includes a number of priorities that local governments have been calling on Congress to address for years, such as workforce development and affordable housing,” notes a brief on the legislation from the National League of Cities (...
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| Published in: | The American City & County 2021-10 |
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| Summary: | “Politics aside, the current reconciliation bill under consideration includes a number of priorities that local governments have been calling on Congress to address for years, such as workforce development and affordable housing,” notes a brief on the legislation from the National League of Cities (NLC). Building on President Joe Biden’s Climate Change Action Plan, which is also expected to receive some funding through the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the reconciliation bill is projected to feature additional allotments for “electric vehicles and infrastructure, building efficiency and resilience, home energy efficiency and appliance electrification rebates, and low-income and multifamily affordable housing solar facilities and community solar projects,” NLC’s says. [...]along with investments in climate data collecting, forecasting and research, the bill would create a Civilian Climate Corps—a retooling and repurposing of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which was launched in the wake of the Great Depression. “Currently, the bill includes a clean electricity performance program that would incentivize electricity suppliers to provide increasing amounts of clean energy, but other strategies, like carbon pricing, are still on the negotiating table for the bill,” the brief says. |
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| ISSN: | 0149-337X 2161-9123 |