Biden-Harris Climate Actions

Source: The Hill - The Biden administration’s move to reenter the Paris climate agreement this year has added momentum to existing efforts from U.S. cities to become more sustainable and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Source: CNBC - More than 300 businesses and investors are calling on President Joe Biden to nearly double U.S. targets to reduce planet-warming emissions below 2005 levels by 2030.
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Source: The Economist - At the heart of the American Jobs Plan is action to combat climate change. It bristles with support for electric vehicles and renewable energy, as well as proposals for research and sorely needed large government-funded...
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March 30, 2021
Source: The Guardian - Summit is designed to revive a US-convened forum of the world’s major economies that previous administrations had allowed to lapse
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Source: GreenBiz - All of these policy areas connect to the sustainability agenda, so the sustainability community will need to be heavily engaged. And, given how clearly the White House has laid out its agenda, this offers sustainability...
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March 29, 2021
Source: Vox - Biden’s massive infrastructure plan is also a climate plan.
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March 29, 2021
Source: CNBC - President Biden is set to unveil details of a major infrastructure package that’s expected to include record spending on climate change. The recovery plan, to be unveiled this week, will likely involve installing thousands of...
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Source: NBC News - As he prepares for a global climate summit next month, a vigorous influence campaign is underway over the president's forthcoming commitment to the Paris Agreement, with all eyes on whether he will pledge to cut greenhouse gas...
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Source: Rolling Stone - Can Joe Biden’s Democrats do with 50 Senate votes — one of which belongs to West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who once ran an ad of himself shooting a bullet through the cap-and-trade bill — what they couldn’t when they had far larger...
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Source: VOX - President Joe Biden campaigned on a climate policy plan that included, as its backbone, a clean electricity standard (CES) that would push the US electricity sector to net-zero carbon emissions by 2035. Given how important...
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