The Atlantic
The game before the game has started.
These transmission lines near Houston aren’t connected to the national grid.Justin Sullivan / Getty
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President Joe Biden’s legislative climate agenda has kind of fallen out of the news. Lawmakers are focused on what the Biden administration calls the “economic-rescue bill,” the one with the $1,400 checks. The climate content will come in the second, “economic-recovery” package.
Yet this lull has concealed quite a bit of activity.