On climate change, Biden $3.5 trillion plan making up for lost time

Joe Biden said climate change is everybody’s crisis and America must get serious about the code red danger posed by global warming

As President Joe Biden visited one disaster site after another this summer from California wildfires to hurricane-induced flooding in Louisiana and New York he said climate change is everybody’s crisis and America must get serious about the code red danger posed by global warming.

In many ways, the president is making up for lost time. Biden and Democrats are pursuing a sweeping USD 3.5 trillion federal overhaul that includes landmark measures to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in what would be the most consequential environmental policies ever enacted, after years of fits and starts. Sidelined after the former administration withdrew from the landmark Paris climate accord the 2015 global effort to confront climate change the US has returned to the arena, with Biden promising world leaders in April that the US would cut carbon pollution in half by 2030.

But following through on Biden’s climate goals depends in large part on passage of the Democratic package, and it will take the White House’s heft to close the deal between centrist and progressive lawmakers, including disputes over its climate provisions. That’s where he earns his legacy, Rep Jared Huffman, D-Calif., said of Biden. As Democrats rush to finish a package that touches almost all aspects of American life, the proposals related to climate change are proving to be a sticking point, particularly among key centrist lawmakers.

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