It was absolutely essential that this country do more about Global Climate Change.
It may or may not reduce inflation. Compare it to the sort of bill that Trump got passed; he allowed the meatpacking companies to write their own very lax regulations on Covid precautions and 18,000 workers died. This was based on a bogus claim that there was going to be a "meat shortage". And then there was Trump's tax cuts, which benefited the rich much more.