A group of 89 House Democrats asked President Joe Biden to renew efforts to address the purported “climate crisis” after the failure to pass the $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act (BBB) in December. The BBB would have appropriated $555 billion for climate policy, and would have funded things such as tax incentives for electric vehicles, a national network of electric vehicle charging stations, and a New Deal-like agency called the Civilian Climate Corps. After Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said in December that he could not support the bill over concerns about continuing inflation, Democrats’ climate push fell into the background. As lawmakers have struggled on the proper U.S. response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, climate issues have lost their interest. In a March 14 letter (pdf), 89 House Democrats, led by Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), asked Biden to renew the push for wide-ranging new climate policies. “We must …