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Infrastructure Invoice That Tackles Local weather Change Almost Finalized – CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined US Senator Alex Padilla Thursday morning in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to promote the Build Back Better Act, a bill proposed in Congress that which aims to fight climate change while strengthening the social environment of the country safety net.

The proposed bill was drafted by the House Democrats and aims to build the country’s economy over the next 10 years by providing vital funding for basic services such as community college, childcare, Medicare, and prescription drugs, among other things.

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The bill, which is still under negotiation in Congress, would also extend child tax credits and extend paid sick and family vacations.

“The list goes on and on about how we enable families to perform their domestic duties and perform their job duties to provide for their families,” Pelosi said during a briefing at the California Academy of Sciences of the sweeping bill .

“If we do all of this, everyone will be at the table,” she said. “It’s a big table, so when we have a solution, it’s a solution, not a declaration that alienates, but a solution that unites.”

In addition to helping working Americans, the bill would address climate change by funding measures and programs that will turn the nation away from fossil fuels.

The bill includes an established national energy efficiency and clean energy standard, tax credits for electric vehicle purchases and charging station construction projects, and fines for utility companies who fail to increase their renewable energy supplies annually and oil and gas companies who are to blame for methane leaks. The bill also provides substantial funding for forestry and other forest fire prevention measures.

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“The federal government has invested in the infrastructure earlier, but never with a focus and emphasis on sustainability and certainly not at this level of funding than today,” said Padilla.

“For families in California, we know that the climate crisis is already a daily reality. It’s not about what we’re going to see in 10, 20, 30 years from now, but what the Californians are going to experience today, ”he said. “Fossil fuel emissions have brought our planet to a critical point, and yet too many of our Republican colleagues have refused to acknowledge science. They are now denying the need for an emergency response and a real plan of action, ”he said.

Padilla added, “We cannot afford to solve these problems another day. We have to act boldly and tackle this crisis head on. “

Pelosi said the bill is still being finalized, with some changes to the estimated cost likely to be.

“I am very confident,” she said. “We are conducting these negotiations. Our chairmen are sharpening their pencils and seeing how we deal with the number. I wish we could stick with the large number, but we can’t. “

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