Climate Benefits the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Leaves Out

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is criticized for cutting up to a trillion dollars in climate and clean energy spending compared to the American Jobs Plan. Key omissions include large-scale electric vehicle incentives, building energy efficiency retrofits, direct renewable energy deployment, and industrial decarbonization. The author contends these gaps make it impossible for the U.S. to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas reduction goals and suggests using budget reconciliation to restore these investments.

• The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework may reduce environmental, climate, and clean energy spending and tax incentives by as much as one trillion dollars compared to the original American Jobs Plan.
• The bipartisan plan allocates $15 billion for electric vehicle (EV) charging and the electrification of transit and school buses, which is significantly lower than the $180 billion in spending and tax credits proposed in the American Jobs Plan.
• The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework provides no funding for energy efficiency and the retrofitting of buildings, whereas the American Jobs Plan proposed $370 billion for these purposes.
• While the bipartisan framework invests $73 billion in grid infrastructure and $20 billion in an Infrastructure Financing Authority, it lacks specific investments in renewable energy deployment, unlike the American Jobs Plan's proposed $390 billion for clean power and transmission.
• The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework does not explicitly include investments for research, development and demonstration (RD&D), advanced manufacturing, or industrial decarbonization, such as the 10 carbon capture demonstrations proposed in the American Jobs Plan.
• The omission of these climate provisions is described as a barrier to the United States meeting its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.

APA

World Resources Institute (2021). Climate Benefits the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Leaves Out. https://www.wri.org/insights/climate-benefits-missing-bipartisan-infrastructure-framework

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Climate Benefits the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Leaves Out. 2021. https://www.wri.org/insights/climate-benefits-missing-bipartisan-infrastructure-framework.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2021climate, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Climate Benefits the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Leaves Out}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2021}, month = jul, url = {https://www.wri.org/insights/climate-benefits-missing-bipartisan-infrastructure-framework}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }