Biden’s days are numbered and he will soon retire to someplace in Delaware and write a book. But before he goes he took a stab at looking like a president that cared.
His big announcement was about the environment….
President Biden is pledging to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035 as he fights to ensure his legacy on slowing global warming, even as President-elect Trump vows to undo much of Biden’s climate work when he takes office next month. Biden said the new goal—which supersedes a previous plan to cut carbon emissions at least in half by 2030—keeps the United States on track to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by 2050, per the AP. The US is making a formal submission of the new target, known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, to the United Nations under terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, Biden said Thursday.
The new goal calls for reducing net emissions by 61% to 66% below 2005 levels in 2035. “I’m proud that my administration is carrying out the boldest climate agenda in American history,” Biden said in a videotaped statement. “We’re doing it by setting ambitious goals,” such as deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind and conserving at least 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, Biden said. His administration also has set strict new standards to cut air pollution from cars, trucks, and power plants and signed into law the most significant investments in climate and clean energy in US history, he said.
The proposal would require sustained changes across the economy, from power generation to transportation, buildings, agriculture, and industry, including significant increases in renewable energy and steep cuts in emissions from fossil fuels. The US pledge includes methane reductions of at least 35% from 2005 levels by 2035, Biden said. Cutting methane emissions is among the fastest ways to reduce near-term warming and is crucial to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The action by the Democratic president comes just over a month before he’s set to leave office. Trump has already promised to unleash a series of executive actions that will seek to undo most or all of Biden’s climate agenda as the Republican president-elect pushes for “energy dominance” around the globe. More here.
This is a bold proposal but where was it 4 years ago?
How will this be carried out when in just days the most climate hostile president will take office?
This was lame and a shot in the dark….kinda like most Biden policies.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Why would anyone believe this is a Biden proposal ? The anti fossil fuel subversives and other non elected creatures have been running things for a long time.
From both sides of that aisle…..they own DC and all its players. chuq
Unfortunately true.They even own the money we haven’t even printed yet.
Something needs to change but it will not sadly chuq
cognitive decline works miracles sometimes
Something the voter is stricken with…..chuq
Ha ha ha ha
I don’t see that any of those plans are binding on any future administration. It foes make a statement about what the Biden administration would like to see done. Maybe he thinks the democrats can use this gesture in future campaigns go distinguish them from the republicans on climate change issues.
Biden just commuted the death sentences of 37 prisoners on death row to life without parole. That is fine with me but makes me wonder what else will Biden do in the next four weeks?
Any traction it would get will be lost on the voter come time to vote. I wonder as well what else he has up his sleeve. chuq
Nothing Biden can do on his own is binding once he leaves office. He can alter how the executive branch enforces laws and implements regulations, but only the Congress can actually create laws and Congress also controls the purse strings. Anything Biden does with an executive order can be immediately be undone as soon as he’s out of office. Basically all of this is nothing but whitewashing his reputation. Or, perhaps, greenwashing might be a better term.
an increasingly pathetic end to a weak, weak presidency.
I totally agree….Merry Christmas have a great day. chuq
Merry Christmas to you, too.
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This feels like the last gasp of an old man who didn’t really leave his mark on history.
Best wishes, Pete.
A lame intent indeed. chuq