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157 views By Toby Short, Associate Vice President, Federal Affairs My father and grandparents worked in the textile mills in North Carolina. When those mills closed, the once vibrant towns that housed the mills began to shut down as well. My father, being young at the time, ended up moving to find work. But my grandparents stayed because that was the life and the community they knew. And we’ve seen this same story all across America. A bipartisan group of senators – including Joe Manchin, Debbie Stabenow and Steve Daines – is trying to reverse that trend. America’s domestic manufactur...

Stimulus deal includes raft of provisions to fight climate change Sarah Kaplan, Dino Grandoni © Logan Cyrus/for The Washington Post Mike Catanzaro walks through a solar array he installed in Charlotte in 2017. In one of the biggest victories for U.S. climate action in a decade, Congress has moved to phase out a class of potent planet-warming chemicals and provide billions of dollars for renewable energy and efforts to suck carbon from the atmosphere as part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief package. The legislation, which Congress approved moments before midnight ...