Joe Biden's plan for rebuilding the economy hinges heavily on clean-energy investment and would rapidly reverse the Trump era's retreat on climate.
Joe Biden plans to unveil a proposal for rebuilding the economy that focuses heavily on restoring American leadership in the fight against global warming, directing government recovery efforts toward expanding clean energy and rapidly reversing the Trump administration’s abandonment of climate efforts.
The plan is notably more aggressive than the one Biden campaigned on during his party’s primaries, part of an overall move in which he has embraced some of the proposals of his more progressive rivals in an effort to unify the party for the general election.Nominees typically moderate their positions as they move into the general election. On climate, Biden is going in the opposite direction.
During remarks at a fundraiser Monday afternoon, Biden stressed the need to put policies in place that could not be unwound the way President Trump has tried to reverse the Obama administration’s climate plans.“God willing I win, and even if I serve eight years, I want to make sure we put down such a marker that it’s impossible for the next president to turn it around,” he said.
Biden has also said he supports a carbon tax — a policy many environmental economists say is crucial to effectively curbing climate change — but there is no mention of that in the current proposal.Much of the plan would require congressional approval, which would prove a heavy lift even if Democrats win back control of the Senate.
The federal government would also help subsidize the retrofitting of 4 million buildings to make them more energy efficient and aim to create 250,000 jobs “plugging abandoned oil and natural gas wells and reclaiming abandoned coal, hardrock, and uranium mines.”“Environmental justice is a key consideration in where, how, and with whom we build,” the plan says.
Such an agency was championed by Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, an early rival of Biden’s in the presidential primary who ran on a platform dominated by confronting climate change. Biden adopted several of the ideas pushed by Inslee in his plan.The plan also reflects parts of the agenda of another erstwhile rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose supporters agreed to work with the former vice president on policy compromises that would help unify the Democratic Party.
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