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What's Inside Manchin and Schumer’s Astonishing Climate Deal - The Atlantic

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If passed, the energy provisions of the senators’ new bill would represent the most significant climate action in a generation.

Every few years, American politics astonishes you. Yesterday was one of those days. In the late afternoon, Senator Joe Manchin announced that he had reached a compromise with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over President Joe Biden’s long-ailing legislative agenda. In a move that seemed to shock almost all of their colleagues, the two men unveiled a nearly completed bill that will reduce the federal budget deficit, reduce greenhouse-gas pollution, invest in new energy infrastructure, and lower health-care costs. By 8:30 p.m., the complete text of a bill that nobody had known about four ho

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