The GOP no longer loves power lines. That's bad for Biden's climate goals.
Posted on AllSides June 2nd, 2023
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ANALYSIS
In 2005, President George W. Bush declared that “new technologies such as superconducting power lines can help us bring our electrical grid into the 21st century.”
A lot has changed since then. For one thing, “We Belong Together” by Mariah Carey is no longer No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. For another, Republicans have become a lot less enthusiastic about long-distance power lines, complicating President Biden’s climate agenda.
The debt ceiling bill, which passed the Senate last night, is a prime example of this trend. Democrats and the White House pushed for the bill to include provisions that would...
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