The U.S. is on the verge of making a historic investment in clean technologies through the Build Back Better Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
If the Congress passes these bills, the United States will be at the vanguard of powering a clean industrial revolution. To realize this version of the future, we need to do things like update the electric grid so it can carry more clean energy to more places, rethink how we create things like liquid fuels, and accelerate the time from lab to market for early-stage climate technologies. When I say accelerate, I mean by a lot. In the past, energy transitions have taken as long as a century. For the sake of a livable future, we need to do it in a decade or two.
Combined, the bills Congress is considering would invest more than $650 billion into clean energy solutions. This would represent the largest effort to combat the climate crisis in American history, and it’s our best shot to avoid a climate disaster. (Read here)
