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‘We’re back, baby’: New bill boosts US climate credibility

A solar farm sits behind homes Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Mona, Utah. The U.S. has renewed credibility on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own efforts, experts say, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday, Aug. 7. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) A wind turbine works on the campus of Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. The U.S. has renewed legitimacy on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own emissions-reducing efforts, experts said, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday, Aug. 7. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) FILE - Jeremy Brenner, top, and Billy Hall of Luminalt work to install solar panels on the roof of a home in Menlo Park, Calif., July 13, 2022. The U.S. has renewed legitimacy on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own emissions-reducing efforts, experts said, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday, Aug. 7. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File) FILE - President Joe Biden walks off after speaking during an event about the "Global Methane Pledge" at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland, as John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate takes the podium, shown on the screen. The U.S. has renewed legitimacy on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own emissions-reducing efforts, experts said, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday, Aug. 7. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) FILE - Niklas Hoehne, from left, New Climate Institute Cologne, Luisa Neubauer, Fridays for Future activist, Peter Donatus, journalist and activist, and Linda Kastrop, activist, stand in front of a giant globe in the exhibition "The Fragile Paradise" during a news conference on planned actions in 2022 and discuss "greenwashing" in Brussels, Oberhausen, Germany, Feb. 11, 2022. The U.S. has renewed legitimacy on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own emissions-reducing efforts, experts said, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Climate activists agree that the bill is just one step on a larger path towards climate action. (Roland Weihrauch/dpa via AP, File) FILE - President Joe Biden shows a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, June 23, 2022. The U.S. has renewed legitimacy on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own emissions-reducing efforts, experts said, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday, Aug. 7. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
‘We’re back, baby’: New bill boosts US climate credibility