‘A Self-Inflicted Tragedy’: Congress Approves Reversal of US Climate Policy

"Self-inflicted tragedy": Washington's abrupt turnaround on climate policy

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US House of Representatives voted 218 to 214 on Thursday to pass President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, greenlighting deep cuts to America’s social safety net and the decimation of the country’s only federal climate strategy. Democrats uniformly opposed the bill, while all but two House Republicans supported it. “This bill…

‘A self-inflicted tragedy’: Congress approves reversal of US climate policy

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-214 on Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, greenlighting deep cuts to America’s social safety net and the decimation of the country’s only federal climate strategy. Democrats uniformly opposed the bill, while all but two House Republicans supported it. “This bill will leave America a far crueler and weaker place,” said Robert Weissman, co-president of the nonprofit …