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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
With the unexpected but slim Democratic Senate majority in the wake of two wins in Georgia, President-elect Joseph Biden and Congressional Democrats have new opportunities to enact pro-climate energy and environmental policy. While it’s still unlikely that we will see sweeping stand-alone climate change legislation, we can expect to see targeted approaches to rollback Trump-era rules, further incentivize and encourage renewable energy development, restrict fossil fuel production on public lands, modernize the electric grid to handle renewable power sources and potentially put a price on carbon emissions.
Although bipartisanship will still be necessary to advance several priorities, Congressional Democrats can use a number of procedures to advance their agenda with simple majority votes to avoid significant compromises with Republicans. Below are three areas where Biden and Democrats can move their energy and environmental agenda in the weeks
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