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Members of the Sunrise Movement and other environmental groups demonstrating last month in New York City.Credit.Scott Heins/Getty Images
To the Editor:
A tentative bipartisan deal has been agreed to on infrastructure, but many doubt that it can garner the 60 votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster. The same issues apply to climate change legislation. Perhaps a change in strategy is needed.
Rather than pushing against hard-line political resistance, a better approach would be moving toward a collaborative partnership between government and private industry. It would be far more productive if the federal government worked with energy corporations, helping them make the socially beneficial decisions, embraced by the Business Roundtable and just recently the American Petroleum Institute, that are required to move toward nonpolluting and climate-friendly sources of energy.
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