Sanders, Democrats Push Effort to Kill ‘Handouts’ for Fossil Fuels in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Sanders, Democrats push effort to kill 'handouts' for fossil fuels in Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and other critics of the Trump administration's environmental policies are renewing a push for legislation that would end energy subsidies that the critics say will "destroy the planet." The proposal, dubbed the End Polluter Welfare Act, is a revival of past environmental advocacy efforts from Sanders and others, but it adds in targeted responses to President Trump's agenda-setting One Big, …

Sanders, Democrats push effort to kill ‘handouts’ for fossil fuels in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and other critics of the Trump administration's energy policies have introduced the "End Polluter Welfare Act" to cut over $190 billion in federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry over the next decade and prevent the Trump administration from opening public lands to new drilling and mining efforts.