Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce have begun debate over billions in funding “relating to air pollution,” defined to include carbon and carbon dioxide, with the many climate- and environment-related provisions—including new electric vehicle incentives—as well as $20 billion toward a “greenhouse gas reduction fund,” which Republicans called a “national climate bank.”
The air pollution funding falls under the $37 billion Subtitle A, one of just 16 subtitles that the committee will consider. The committee’s debate over the full, $1.2 trillion reconciliation title, itself just part of the larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, is expected to last for days.
