Big, heavily publicized climate change bills that polarize a divided Congress like the Waxman-Markey Act and the Clean Power Plan have tanked in the past, so Biden will be trying something else: being nice and quiet about it. That means countless little interventions snuck into bigger Congressional bills or departmental spending. Recent examples have been a $50 tax break for each ton of carbon captured and stored underground, a DOE program to close drafty houses, and $35 billion in clean energy spending and set limits on emissions of hydrofluorocarbons in the Dec spending bill.
