Despite a flurry of investments in clean energy, the United States is struggling to meet its climate goals.
It’s a problem that’s vexing Brian Deese, who led the National Economic Council in the Biden White House and who played a key role in enacting the law known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which included hundreds of billions of dollars of incentives for clean energy and climate programs.
“It’s the issue that keeps me up most at night when I think about this set of issues,” Deese, who’s now advising Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, said Tuesday during an interview with The Washington Post.
Deese was asked why the United States is falling short on its climate goals despite the frenzy of investment into clean energy technologies. Recent studies have shown that the expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions — fueled in part by the climate law — won’t be enough to meet the U.S. goal to cut emissions 50 percent of 2005 levels by 2030.
