November 27, 2023
Historic. Transformational. Unprecedented. These are just a few words being used to describe the federal government’s recent commitments to fund the clean energy transition, environmental cleanup, and climate change endeavors across the country.
The $430 billion investment, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, is “huge,” said Associate Professor Bonnie Keeler, an environmental policy expert at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. And it comes at a time when we see regular reminders of the urgency of tackling the climate crisis.