This week in good climate news

After more than a year of political wrangling, President Joe Biden approved the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, on Tuesday, signing into law the most sweeping climate and energy bill ever enacted in the United States, which contains $369 billion in clean-energy tax credits and funding for climate and energy programs. READ MORE

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