(16 Aug 2022)
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Washington — 16 August 2022
1. Mid of science writer Seth Borenstein typing at desk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press Science Writer:
"And the bill that President Biden has signed is the biggest one nation has done in one period in the entire time that I've been covering climate change. This is a huge event, especially for the United States. It still doesn't catch up with Europe, which has done more as a whole of multiple nations."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press Science Writer:
"This is going to change America's fuel supply. Eventually, it's not going to be something quick, and it's actually also not going to be something you're going to notice as much. It's being done through an awful lot of incentives, tax credits, subsidies, but eventually your power supply. If this works the way they think and that's a big if we'll start to become greener and cleaner, be more renewable energy, more solar, more wind, maybe more nuclear, less carbon burning. And so that means less heat trapping gases in the atmosphere to produce less warming."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press Science Writer:
(Referring to Rhodium Group's Energy & Climate, a nonpartisan group that analyzes the effects of policy and market developments on energy and emissions) "The Rhodium Group did some analysis and they found that for the average household by 2030, the yearly energy bill, when you include fuel for cars, heating and everything and cooling, will be about $112 less than it is now. So that's not a great amount. But it's something, as the analyst at Rhodium said, every other time in the past when people have talked about climate action, it costs people money. This one actually saves people money. At least that's their analysis. But it all is predicated on the fact that all these incentives are supposed to make everything cheaper."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press Science Writer:
"Until this bill passed and was signed, the US was on track to basically everything we were doing would essentially make the world 3 to 4 degrees Celsius warmer. Now we're talking 2 to 3 degrees and this is since the pre-industrial time. So this changes things a bit. And that's if everyone else follows us. And the same climate scientist I talked to today said other countries have told him they were waiting for the US. For years, for decades the US has talked climate action but not not acted. So we talk but don't act. This is the first action. And now countries like Chile are going to think about now, maybe now, we can do more. If the US, which is this big time polluters finally doing something. Maybe a more others will do more. And the big one to watch is China, which is the number one polluter. And they have often taken the feel the position that the US is talking but not acting."
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STORYLINE:
After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it's nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill Friday that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.
"The bill that President Biden has signed is the biggest one nation has done in one period in the entire time that I've been covering climate change," Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein says.
Experts say it isn't enough, but it's a big start.
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