Morning Brief: Environmentalists focus on reconciliation bill for climate

June 28, 2021
Environmentalists are shifting their climate advocacy to Democrats’ upcoming economic policy bill advanced with the Senate’s budget “reconciliation” procedures, after a bipartisan infrastructure deal reached last week offered what they argue is an insufficient level of climate mitigation policy. “Our eyes are on the prize,” the Sierra Club’s Ben Beachy told The Hill last week . “We’re fighting for a big bold infrastructure package, and the path for that, as confirmed today, is the reconciliation path, and that is...


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