Biden’s Climate Proposals: Tiptoeing Across the Starting Line

Stan Cox

May 2, 2021

President Joe Biden announced on Earth Day that under the Paris climate agreement, the United States will pledge a 50-percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030. He also reiterated his intention to “set a course” toward “net zero emissions economy-wide” by 2050. This was a welcome change from life under the previous president, who had […]

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Stan Cox is the author of seven books, including The Green New Deal and Beyond : Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can and Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World. He lives in Salina, Kansas.

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