After more than a year of wrangling and frustration, Manchin’s reversal means that some important parts of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda are likely to be enacted.
Over the last decade, millions of acres of grasslands have been lost to wildfires, extreme drought, fragmentation, commercial development, invasive species and other threats.
A Senate hearing convened by Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) will examine the drought parching the American West, which scientists say has been turbocharged by rising global temperatures.
