On a Tuesday night in February, Tom Perriello sat with his 80-year-old mother before the television set inside her Charlottesville, Va., home and wept.
President Joe Biden was in the midst of delivering a State of the Union address that touted his administration’s groundbreaking climate-change legislation. For Perriello, a former one-term member of Congress who had sacrificed his legislative career in part over his efforts to pass a climate change bill, the moment was one of pride and regret — also, amazement that a subject that had been so toxic that it had played a major role in the Democrats’ loss of 63 seats in the 2010 midterms was being viewed as a political winner.
“I really worried after 2009-10 we were never going to get another chance,” Perriello said.
Now, Biden himself seems to be gearing up for a reelection campaign based in part on the need for climate action. Among the legislative achievements Biden touted on that February evening was last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, which included the nation’s largest ever investment — $369 billion — to fight climate change. Following a now-familiar script, Biden focused on the economic benefits of a climate program centered around green industrial policy: “Lowering utility bills, creating American jobs, leading the world to a clean energy future.”
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