Obscured in more than 2,700 pages of the U.S. Senate’s so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill is a plan for state-mandated carbon-reduction programs.
The text, which Breitbart News exclusively obtained from U.S. Senate sources not authorized to leak it, details how the federal government would mandate states to craft “Green New Deal”-style programs in partnership with local metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to fight “climate change.”
“A state, in consultation with any metropolitan planning organization designated within the state, shall develop a carbon reduction strategy,” according to the text, which is also in the officially released version of the bill. [Emphasis added]
The federal government oversees metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), which are designated by agreement between the governor and local governments and represent localities in all urbanized areas (UZAs) with populations over 50,000, as determined by the U.S. Census, according to the Federal Transit Administration.
There are at least 420 MPOs in the United States, the National Association of Regional Councils estimated.
No later than two years after the bill’s enactment, states would have to present their carbon reduction programs for approval to the secretary of transportation. The proposed strategies must meet several requirements to be considered “green” enough.
Requirements include but are not limited to:
- Reducing traffic congestion by disincentivizing single-occupant vehicle trips and facilitating “the use of alternatives” like public transportation, shared or pooled vehicle trips, “pedestrian facilities,” and “bicycle facilities” within the state.
- Facilitating the use of vehicles or modes of travel that result in “lower transportation emissions per person-mile traveled as compared to existing vehicles.”
- Incentivizing the construction of vehicles that emit less carbon.
States, at their “discretion,” would also be required to come up with a way to keep track of total carbon emissions from the production, transport, and use of materials used in the construction of transportation facilities within their states.
The secretary of transportation has the power to reject states’ proposed strategies if the plans do not meet the laid out requirements and are therefore deemed “not green enough.” The secretary can also assist with strategy development upon state request.
Sources familiar with the drafting of the text of this bill told Breitbart News it was being written in secret for months outside the normal legislative process, which is supposed to happen in relevant committees of jurisdiction.
These sources made the unauthorized leak of the draft text to Breitbart News out of concern that the murky and secretive process behind this bill may have led to widespread corruption throughout its nearly three thousand pages, Breitbart News reported.
Senate proponents of the proposal released the final text of the legislation late Sunday evening after Breitbart News published the leaked draft, and the final bill text is almost exactly the same as the near-final draft provided to Breitbart News as an unauthorized leak from Congress earlier in the evening.
The final bill is only one page longer at 2,702 pages.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she will not bring the bipartisan bill for a vote unless it also comes with the $3.5 trillion reconciliation infrastructure bill.
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It is appears that the requirements include forcing people out of their cars, at least the non-electric ones that the average family can afford. Of the 420 MPOs in the United States, we can be sure if it were put to a popular vote such actions would only pass in one or two of them. Yet the plan is to force this on the states as a federal mandate. This is being done by a government that installed itself with voter fraud. We are definitely living in a country run by a liberal dictatorship.
I agree. If I could add some clarification: We have a Leftist/Globalist run federal government that was installed via election/ballot fraud. Every new bill whether “for” infrastructure, Covid relief, voting, climate change, gun control et al is a Trojan Horse designed to concentrate massive power within the federal government. Remember once a federal “program” is created it never dies.
The problem seems to be (at least partially) that we don’t understand the term “Infrastructure” We assume it means fixing our disreputable bridges and straightening the roads. Not True. “Infrastructure” is a broad, inclusive term in which politicians can insert all the things they couldn’t otherwise get passed, and sneak them by an unsuspecting public. Since the federal government has NO MONEY OF ITS OWN, you will pay for every cent of it whether it’s useful or not. A Splendid “grab bag” to sneak in goodies for their own constituents.
From the article, “it was being written in secret for months outside the normal legislative process” Any time legislation is being written in secret it is a red flag that it is bad legislation. It is also shows that our legislative process is corrupt.
The corruption started over 50 years ago when Roger Revelle And Charles Keeling ran a CO2 sampling station on Mona Loa, near 2 active volcanoes near by and other volcanoes in the western pacific. There was no real peer review, but that did not deter them, they took the results to Lindon Johnson and that is how the political process was started. I call that fraud.
CO2 is Not a Pollutant its Plat Food plants use CO2 to grow Regulating CO2 over some Junk Science would be a big Mistake Big the Globalists depends upon lies and Ignorance to get what it wants
No CO2 reduction needed — it’s all propaganda. The only untold suffering is all the fake climate news … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBT3M-RIZ0
If you follow the logic of the global warming science, then there has to be a build=up of heat some place. They have looked at the atmosphere and it’s not there. they have looked at the earth itself as a heat sink, that did not work. They are trying to paint the oceans as a heat sink. The oceans as a heat sink is totally crazy, but they do not care.