{"id":6721,"date":"2021-12-02T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:59:28","slug":"the-infrastructure-law-aims-to-clean-up-pollution-in-your-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6721","title":{"rendered":"The infrastructure law aims to clean up pollution in your community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes $350 billion<\/a> to address long-ignored environmental threats. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act<\/a> is the largest sum in recent memory directed at cleaning up pollution, from replacing lead pipes to capping methane-spewing oil wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding could make a serious dent in air and water pollution for certain communities by preventing runoff from abandoned mines and cleaning up old, toxic manufacturing sites. People who live near busy roadways, airports, and ports may benefit from the boost to electric vehicle charging stations, school buses, and cranes that will replace gas- and diesel-burning cars and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other investments will improve public health more indirectly: One of the law\u2019s major provisions includes expanding transmission that can move more clean energy across the grid. By increasing the mix of renewables, states and the utilities they regulate ultimately would need to burn fewer fossil fuels to power the economy.The biggest criticism of the new law is what it leaves out: Environmental advocates say the funding only meets a fraction of the nation\u2019s needs<\/a> for addressing water and air pollution, and falls far short of the transformative change Biden promised on the campaign trail.
This is also not the transformative climate bill that climate activists had hoped for. “
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22772701\/biden-infrastructure-law-environmental-funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes $350 billion to address long-ignored environmental threats. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the largest sum in recent memory directed at cleaning up pollution, from replacing lead pipes to capping methane-spewing oil wells.
\nThe funding could make a serious dent in air and water pollution for certain communities by preventing runoff from abandoned mines and cleaning up old, toxic manufacturing sites. People who live near busy roadways, airports, and ports may benefit from the boost to electric vehicle charging stations, school buses, and cranes that will replace gas- and diesel-burning cars and equipment.<\/p>\n

Other investments will improve public health more indirectly: One of the law\u2019s major provisions includes expanding transmission that can move more clean energy across the grid. By increasing the mix of renewables, states and the utilities they regulate ultimately would need to burn fewer fossil fuels to power the economy.<\/p>\n

The biggest criticism of the new law is what it leaves out: Environmental advocates say the funding only meets a fraction of the nation\u2019s needs for addressing water and air pollution, and falls far short of the transformative change Biden promised on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

This is also not the transformative climate bill that climate activists had hoped for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,105,542,103,104,1247,780,906,359],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-climate-change","tag-congress","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden","tag-legislation","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}