Thread by @leahstokes

Big news! The House Democrats just dropped a big new #CLEANfuture bill: 80% clean power by 2030, 100% clean by 2035. This is huge momentum towards @JoeBiden's commitment of cleaning up our electricity system by 2035.

What's in the bill? Quick thread! 🧵
thehill.com/policy/energy-…

First some background. This is an update to an important bill that came out last year, and which @DataProgress received positively in this post I wrote with @jnoisecat + @narayansub.
dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/2/18…

One important change is that the new #CLEANfuture bill requires prevailing wages for construction of new generating units. All qualifying generation must also remain neutral with respect to the right to organize and bargain.

These are very important labor protections.

The bill also goes farther when it comes to limiting fossil gas. Importantly, the bill requires upstream methane leakage to be incorporated into the carbon footprint of gas plants.

And by 2035, uncontrolled fossil gas can't count, at all.

My own view is that we should not give partial credit to gas plants, as we argued in this recent @EvergreenAction report. That said, the bill is stronger than it was last year on this specific provision, and we should applaud that progress.
evergreenaction.com/100clean

Of course, this bill would not be able to pass through budget reconciliation -- and it wasn't designed to do that.

But it's wonderful to see this strong leadership from House Democrats saying that 100% clean power by 2035 is within our reach!

Let's get it done.

In conclusion, I think that's what they call #Joementum

The CES ain't dead. And it's not going to die. 100% clean power by 2035 is happening!