{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barragan.house.gov/2021/12/15/congressional-progressive-caucus-urges-senate-opposition-to-fossil-fuel-handouts-in-build-back-better/", "Congressional Progressive Caucus Urges Senate Opposition to Fossil Fuel Handouts in Build Back Better", "2021-12-15", "2021", "2021-12", "Democrat", "House", "CA", "Nanette Diaz Barrag\u00e1n", "B001300", "barragan.house.gov", "barragan", "https://barragan.house.gov/news", "scraper", "\u201cThe Build Back Better Act has rightfully been touted as the largest-ever federal investment in climate action. But to meet this moment, Congress needs to be concerned not only about quantity, but quality. If the Senate eliminates every mechanism in this bill designed to push polluters into a clean energy future, we simply will never get there \u2014 and that is unacceptable. Today, we urge the Senate to resist the fossil fuel industry\u2019s efforts to remove basic guardrails on the tax credits for carbon sequestration.\n\n\u201cThe House-passed version of Build Back Better requires fossil fuel emitting plants to store 75 percent or more of their carbon pollution \u2014 an eminently reasonable requirement, as the fossil fuel industry itself touts carbon capture\u2019s ability to achieve a 90 percent sequestration rate. But now, special interest groups are pushing our Senate colleagues to remove the requirement altogether, and provide a no-strings-attached taxpayer handout to the biggest polluters. For Congress to pass such a policy \u2014 especially as the South and Midwest are still recovering from the latest climate change fueled disaster \u2014 would be an insult to basic tax fairness and to every member of our communities demanding environmental justice. It\u2019s simple: a bill that aims to tackle climate change and rapidly decarbonize our economy cannot include gifts for polluters.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden has demonstrated leadership on the world stage in making the ambitious, yet necessary, commitment that the United States will halve its carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. In order to meet that mandate, our colleagues must oppose any efforts to remove the limited guardrails that currently exist on carbon sequestration subsidies and protect our national effort to rapidly transition to solar, wind, and other renewable energies. As the Senate debates the Build Back Better Act, this House-passed legislation\u2019s promise to address climate change at the scope of the crisis, and deliver on the President\u2019s transformational vision, must not be weakened.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://barragan.house.gov/2021/12/15/congressional-progressive-caucus-urges-senate-opposition-to-fossil-fuel-handouts-in-build-back-better/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.664917916059494, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}