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Biden and Environmental Groups Try to Protect Climate Policies from Trump [NYTimes;11.9.24]
They will work to accelerate implementing the provisions of the inflation Reduction Act.
From the article:
“Mr. Biden set a goal of cutting American emissions by roughly 50 percent from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. That’s what all major economies need to do to avoid increasingly dire consequences of global warming, scientists say.
Mr. Trump intends to abandon that effort. His vision of economic growth calls for more oil and gas drilling — which is already at record levels in the United States — along with tariffs and tax cuts.
Still, environmental activists and Mr. Podesta insisted that most Americans did not vote for more fossil fuels.
“You’d be hard-pressed to see anything in the data that would indicate people have soured on the movement toward clean energy,” Mr. Podesta said. But he said that the factories and jobs that were being created by the Inflation Reduction Act had not come online fast enough for most Americans to feel the impact.”
Also, from the article:
“Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, all but dared Republicans to repeal the law. “If Republican lawmakers want to follow Donald Trump off the cliff and kill 343,000 jobs nationwide, they’ll be signing their own political death warrant,” he said in an interview.
“Canceling electric vehicle plants in Georgia and battery factories in South Carolina is a losing strategy,” Mr. Markey said, adding, “The problem for Trump is the green revolution is blue and red.””
Here’s the same article but pasted directly into the post, in case that works better:
www.nytimes.com
They will work to accelerate implementing the provisions of the inflation Reduction Act.
From the article:
“Mr. Biden set a goal of cutting American emissions by roughly 50 percent from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. That’s what all major economies need to do to avoid increasingly dire consequences of global warming, scientists say.
Mr. Trump intends to abandon that effort. His vision of economic growth calls for more oil and gas drilling — which is already at record levels in the United States — along with tariffs and tax cuts.
Still, environmental activists and Mr. Podesta insisted that most Americans did not vote for more fossil fuels.
“You’d be hard-pressed to see anything in the data that would indicate people have soured on the movement toward clean energy,” Mr. Podesta said. But he said that the factories and jobs that were being created by the Inflation Reduction Act had not come online fast enough for most Americans to feel the impact.”
Also, from the article:
“Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, all but dared Republicans to repeal the law. “If Republican lawmakers want to follow Donald Trump off the cliff and kill 343,000 jobs nationwide, they’ll be signing their own political death warrant,” he said in an interview.
“Canceling electric vehicle plants in Georgia and battery factories in South Carolina is a losing strategy,” Mr. Markey said, adding, “The problem for Trump is the green revolution is blue and red.””
Here’s the same article but pasted directly into the post, in case that works better:
Biden and Environmental Groups Try to Protect Climate Policies from Trump
John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said agencies were racing to deliver money from the 2022 climate law before Donald Trump arrives.
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