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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 th...