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Biden Honeymoon With Liberals Fades as Priorities Downplayed Bloomberg 5 hrs ago Nancy Cook (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden’s honeymoon with the most liberal wing of his party risks an abrupt and politically damaging end, with rising anxiety among progressives that the president won’t fulfill their aspirations for climate policy or expansions of voting rights and spending on social programs. As Biden tries to hold together a $579 billion bipartisan infrastructure deal, progressive lawmakers and the leaders of several major liberal interest groups are publicly calling out his Wh...

Published: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Energy collage. Credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr (drafting sketches); jwigley/Pixabay (pump jack); MaxPixel (turbines); Tikilucas/Wikimedia Commons (coal plant) A new report issued by several environmental and climate groups spells out design possibilities for a federal clean energy standard, widely seen as one of the few policy routes available to meet President Biden's aggressive zero-carbon goals. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr (drafting sketches); jwig...

by Alexander E. Kaufman (Huffington Post/Yahoo! News)  … The 11-page Evergreen Action memo highlights the limits of what the Biden administration can do unilaterally. At least a dozen ideas proposed in the document require Congress to act, including nearly all steps to cut off financial benefits to fossil fuel producers. There’s the intangible drilling deduction, which lets oil companies deduct the cost of drilling new wells from their year-end tax bills, valued at $1.59 billion annually or $13 billion over the next 10 years. There are roughly $530 million in deductions for royalty p...