Senate Democrats on Sunday delivered President Joe Biden a major victory in the fight against climate change, passing a bill that will direct hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy sources and accelerate the United States' move away from fossil fuels.
The Inflation Reduction Act passed on a 51-50 party-line vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.
The bill includes a $369 billion clean energy and climate package to speed up emission reductions and put the nation on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, helping US move close to the target Biden set under the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce that pollution by at least half by that time.
