Although the $2 billion would barely make a dent in the problem, several states like the idea of Federal money subsidizing the clean-up.
“It’s a win for the environment, it’s a win for states, it’s a win for workers,” chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) said during a June 1 forum on the proposal. “And it simply accelerates the cleanup that American taxpayers are on the hook for sooner or later anyway.”
The Democratic-led House of Representatives approved the massive infrastructure bill, sending it to the Senate before lawmakers headed home for the July 4 holiday.
The Senate didn’t move the bill forward. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it will join other House proposals he claimed were passed with an eye on the November elections not on getting legislation enacted into law.
“This so-called infrastructure bill would siphon billions in funding from actual infrastructure to funnel into climate change policies,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said. “So naturally, this nonsense is not going anywhere in the Senate. It will just join the list of absurd House proposals that were only drawn up to show fealty to the radical left.”
