Tony Cárdenas: “LIFT America authorizes $650 million over the next 5 years to begin this transition.”

The genesis of this effort is the Clean Community for Kids Act, which I proudly championed.

There's a difference between funding sent to a department so that they can get their work done versus funding in order for programs to give grants out to communities.

So actually some cleaner fossil fuel methods are allowed under this program?

Permitting should not be overly burdensome. Construction of these critical projects should not be delayed by endless reviews or unreasonable fees.