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Big Oil-Backed Republicans Push Senate Rules to the Limit to Sabotage Clean Energy in Updated Billionaire Bill Text


Senate Republicans have pushed the rules to the limit to sabotage the clean energy boom on behalf of corporate polluters who are terrified of cheaper, faster-to-build competition—working people be damned.

The Senate parliamentarian rightly stripped provisions that do not meet reconciliation rules (including EPA tailpipe emissions standards, and a pay-to-play scheme for liquified natural gas exports). But the parliamentarian’s changes will provide little relief for America’s clean energy and manufacturing industries amid the onslaught of economic sabotage brought on by this legislation—and working people will be stuck holding the bill. “Senate Republicans have pushed the rules to the limit to sabotage the clean energy boom on behalf of corporate polluters who are terrified of cheaper, faster-to-build competition—working people be damned.

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