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Presidential contenders sidestep details of 'Green New Deal'
Democratic presidential contenders are praising the "Green New Deal" as an aspirational moonshot — but also carefully avoiding diving too far into its details.
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Adam Aton and Daniel Cusick, E&E News reporters
Democratic presidential contenders are praising the "Green New Deal" as an aspirational moonshot — but also carefully avoiding diving too far into its details.
President Biden used his first international conference to show world leaders that the United States has significant new climate ambitions and pressed other countries to go beyond their current plans.
By Scott Waldman in Greenwire
Coal will need to disappear, car and building electrification must accelerate, and oil use has to wane if the U.S. hopes to cut its emissions in half over the next decade, experts say.
By Benjamin Storrow in Climatewire
President Biden used his first international conference to show world leaders that the United States has significant new climate ambitions and pressed other countries to go beyond their current plans.
By Scott Waldman in Greenwire
Coal will need to disappear, car and building electrification must accelerate, and oil use has to wane if the U.S. hopes to cut its emissions in half over the next decade, experts say.
By Benjamin Storrow in Climatewire