We need to be told the true climate cost of Schumer and Manchin’s pipeline side deal | David Sirota and Julia Rock

Democrats hailed the Inflation Reduction Act as a climate crisis victory - so why the secrecy over an oil and gas pipelines bill?

As climate change batters America with heatwaves, droughts and floods, lawmakers should be asking a simple question about any bill: does it increase or decrease the greenhouse gas emissions that are fueling the ecological emergency?

Somehow, though, that query is still not being asked right now in Washington, even as Democratic leaders are promising to advance a bill to gut environmental laws and expedite oil and gas pipelines.

David Sirota is a Guardian US columnist and an award-winning investigative journalist. He is an editor at large at Jacobin, and the founder of The Daily Poster. He served as Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign speechwriter

Julia Rock is a reporter for The Lever