WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Gina McCarthy, the White House climate adviser, said on Wednesday a clean electricity standard and tax credits for renewable energy are “bottom lines” that are needed in a second infrastructure package that could be passed this year.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, is pushing for a second infrastructure package that could be passed on a party line vote through budget reconciliation. The bipartisan bill that Biden and lawmakers are working on does not include a clean electricity standard.
(Reporting by Timothy Gardner)
