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She’s called the dispute “the fight of a lifetime for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols said in a phone call with reporters that her office has been in touch with industry representatives and they are still planning to manufacture cars to California’s standard for tailpipe emissions and electric vehicles.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will meet the requirements of our rules,” she said. “That is what they have said.” \u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“The companies, based on their legal advice and on their desire not to be directly implicated in the ongoing litigation, are saying that they will meet fleet average basis in our state and other states that follow the California rules,” Nichols said. \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also announced that Volvo is considering joining Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen in a voluntary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945609/california-and-carmakers-reach-clean-vehicle-agreement-rebuking-trump-administration\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">deal\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to ramp up fuel efficiency standards over time and encourage investment in electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>\u003c/i>California Senator Dianne Feinstein criticized the Trump administration for relaxing pollution rules during a global pandemic. \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe rolling back emissions standards for vehicles and relaxing important monitoring and reporting standards during this pandemic is a serious error,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/c/d/cdaf5996-be61-47bd-ae02-1d7679241b00/22E9943A30ABA0655E2C4E0435AA0458.2020.03.31-epa-cv-letter.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">wrote\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in a letter. “Given the respiratory nature of COVID-19, I believe it is more important than ever to improve air quality, and I urge EPA to work in a collaborative fashion with state and local partners to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">She asked the Trump administration to allow California to continue to set its own tailpipe emissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump’s New Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s final rules come after two years of the president \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/152b4466881646268a08a02bb1d5d8ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">threatening and fighting states and automakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that opposed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We are delivering on President Trump’s promise to correct the current fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards,” Andrew Wheeler, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a statement Tuesday marking the release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He said the final rule “puts in place a sensible” national program that “strikes the right regulatory balance that protects our environment, and sets reasonable targets for the auto industry. This rule supports our economy, and the safety of American families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Opponents contend the change — gutting his predecessor’s legacy effort against climate-changing fossil fuel emissions — appears driven by Trump’s push to undo the regulatory initiatives of former President Barack Obama and say even the Trump administration itself has had difficulty pointing to the kinds of specific, demonstrable benefits to drivers, public health and safety or the economy that normally accompany standards changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Trump administration says the looser mileage standards will allow consumers to keep buying the less fuel-efficient SUVs that U.S. drivers have favored for years. Opponents say it will kill several hundred more Americans a year through dirtier air, compared to the Obama standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Even “given the catastrophe they’re in with the coronavirus, they’re pursuing a policy that’s going to hurt public health and kill people,” said Chet France, a former 39-year veteran of the EPA who served as a senior official over emissions and mileage standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“This is first time that an administration has pursued a policy that will net negative benefit for society and reduce fuel savings,” France said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Trump’s Cabinet has continued a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9bc2a961143dee11fcef847be3312bc0\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">push to roll back\u003c/span>\u003c/a> public health and environment regulations despite \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">the coronavirus outbreak\u003c/span>\u003c/a> riveting the world’s attention. The administration — like others before it — is facing procedural rules that will make changes adopted before the last six months of Trump’s current term tougher to throw out, even if the White House changes occupants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Business Uncertainty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The standards have split the auto industry with Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen siding with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9a50451d14c94a29a460df8ec2c0cef7\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> and agreeing to higher standards. Most other automakers contend the Obama-era standards were enacted hastily and will be impossible to meet because consumers have shifted dramatically away from efficient cars to SUVs and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Last year, 72% of the new vehicles purchased by U.S. consumers were trucks or SUVS. It was 51% when the current standards went into effect in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Obama administration mandated 5% annual increases in fuel economy. The Trump administration standards call for a 1.5% annual increase, backing off from an initial proposal simply to stop mandating increases in fuel efficiency after 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The transportation sector is the nation’s largest source of climate-changing emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing automakers, said the industry still wants middle ground between the two standards, and it supports year-over-year mileage increases. But he says the Obama-era standards are outdated due to the drastic shift to trucks and SUVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Trump administration standards are likely to cause havoc in the auto industry because, with legal challenges expected, automakers won’t know which standards they will have to obey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“It will be extraordinarily disruptive,” said Richard J. Pierce Jr., a law professor at the George Washington University who specializes in government regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">States and environmental groups will challenge the Trump rules, and a U.S. District Court likely will issue a temporary order shelving them until it decides whether they are legal. The temporary order likely will be challenged with the Supreme Court, which in recent cases has voted 5-4 that a District judge can’t issue such a nationwide order, Pierce said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Feb. 18, 2020\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats will go to the polls on March 3 to select a candidate to be the party’s nominee against President Donald Trump in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Top of mind for many is our warming planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2019 Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/09/warren-biden-slip-in-california-primary-race-says-new-berkeley-igs-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">poll \u003c/span>\u003c/a>of likely Democratic voters, almost half named climate change as their highest priority for the next president, more than on any other issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Last July, a Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945845/californians-concerns-about-worsening-wildfires-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">poll \u003c/span>\u003c/a>found a record number of Californians — 71% — “very concerned” about wildfires becoming more severe because of global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Climate change has “gone from being a nonissue for voters to being one of the top one or two issues,” said \u003cb>Marianne Lavelle\u003c/b>, a reporter with the Pulitzer Prize-winning site \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiAp5nyBRABEiwApTwjXgSNTyXGVfMUyBa56uXbjIzF3GfrEfjjlkCEDk7u3hPficaJCxlXXhoCR4IQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>InsideClimate News\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavelle and her colleagues spent months crafting detailed climate profiles of the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination. She also wrote an expansive analysis of President Donald Trump’s environmental record in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Trump occasionally feigns concern about climate — ‘I think about it all the time,’ he once said — his policy has been an unmitigated and relentless drive toward fossil energy development,” Lavelle wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Raquel Maria Dillon interviewed Lavelle and ICN reporter \u003cb>Georgina Gustin \u003c/b>on where the candidates stand on climate policy. \u003cspan class=\"s2\">Below are excerpts from their answers, edited for length and clarity. Some key points …\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003cb>Climate is a huge issue this election\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin:\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>We know that, at least in Iowa and New Hampshire, climate change ranked second only to health care in surveys of likely voters. That is likely because people are seeing the impacts of climate change all around them — in California, obviously, the devastating wildfires these last couple of years, and the historic flooding across the Midwest this past year. In New England, wildlife levels are dropping. Everybody sees this in their backyards and in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Democratic candidates agree on key policies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle: All of the Democrats agree on getting to zero new greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury, and that’s very significant because it’s in line with the science. They all agree on getting back in the Paris Accord. They all say they won’t take money from the fossil fuel industry. And each of them has embraced elements of the Green New Deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Disagreements on fracking and continued use of fossil fuels\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Gustin: Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg have all said that they are open to fracking, and they have said that they would continue exporting fossil fuels. Mike Bloomberg hasn’t addressed fracking. We’re not really sure where he stands. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are out in front from a climate hawk standpoint: They would ban fracking and, to varying degrees, continued use of fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>Candidates talking about their experience\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle:\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Warren’s plan includes a fossil fuel industry disclosure of risks, and that makes it unique\u003ci>. \u003c/i>Bloomberg worked with the Sierra Club for years on the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/climate/bloomberg-climate-pledge-coal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Beyond Coal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” campaign to shut down coal-fired power plants. His plan is to do that on a federal level. He talks a lot about resilience, and, of course, as mayor of New York City, he had to deal with Superstorm Sandy and the after effects. Biden talks about his diplomatic experience, and how he was active in the Paris climate talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>Trump: All about fossil fuels\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavelle: Donald Trump is\u003ci> \u003c/i>ignoring climate change and doing all he can to promote fossil fuels, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1951605/its-official-feds-open-up-central-california-to-more-drilling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">opening up fracking\u003c/span>\u003c/a> on a million acres in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Gustin: This administration has tried to, or is in the process of dismantling, every major piece of climate legislation enacted by the Obama administration, including the Clean Power Plan and fuel economy standards, which were major accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>The filibuster and its 60-vote requirement to pass legislation is a big stumbling block\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavelle: Just this past year, Congress couldn’t even pass a very small investment in renewable energy. And no matter who wins the Senate, it’s going to be a closely divided Congress. The candidates will have to work with the other party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>Different constituencies divided on approaches and emphasis\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle: Young people look at someone like Biden, who stresses his experience, and they say, ‘So what?’ They don’t see that he accomplished anything with the Obama administration. They don’t see that a lot of work went into environmental policy that went even that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin: Rural voters who are typically very conservative and support Trump appreciate that the candidates include agriculture in their climate and rural plans. All of the candidates have agriculture proposals. Four or eight years ago, climate wasn’t an issue at all. To have candidates get into the weeds on an issue like soil carbon —which Biden and Buttigieg are semi-conversant in — is a remarkable change in the political conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle: Voters are divided on the approach that they want. Buttigieg and Sanders are sucking all the oxygen out of the room. Sanders has taken the mantle of the Green New Deal. Buttigieg seems to be the choice of people who want something more pragmatic. He garnered the largest percentage of people who place climate as their number one issue in New Hampshire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Some of the money collected from the fees will be reinvested in the city’s public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luís Bettencourt, director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, said it remains unclear how successful these new approaches will be, particularly when it comes to encouraging ride sharing. Despite lower costs already encouraging pooling, only about 15% of all rides today are shared, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report notes how much emissions would decrease if half of all rides were shared, but Bettencourt said that level of ride sharing would be difficult to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People want to go fast, they want to maybe have a private conversation, they may not be in a condition where they want to pool,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said electrification could go a long way to solving ride sharing’s carbon emissions. 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But he has divulged little about why he decided to end a successful career managing a multibillion dollar hedge fund — with investments that included fossil fuel interests — to enter politics and the climate fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a 2014 profile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mensjournal.com/features/tom-steyer-an-inconvenient-billionaire-20140218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told \u003c/a>Men’s Journal that he realized, “I really don’t want the highlight of my life to be my success as an investor.” His wife, Kathryn Taylor, said the couple became embarrassed in the mid 2000s that they were profiting from investments in oil companies while committing themselves to environmental issues. In 2012, Steyer stepped down from his role at the hedge fund, sold his personal fossil fuel assets, and got involved in electoral politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steyer’s chief climate accomplishments have come through his checkbook. The billionaire emerged as a climate-champion counterpoint to the Koch brothers, the conservative oil barons. In 2013, he devoted millions of dollars to candidates across the country, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/ken-cuccinelli-virginia-governor-2013-democrats-099255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">governor’s race in Virginia\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-10-28/environmentalists-and-big-coal-fight-it-out-small-election-washington-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county council elections\u003c/a> in Washington state, who promised to take action on climate change or oppose fossil fuel development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">He founded the nonprofit NextGen Climate the same year to build a political movement around climate action, working on voter registration and mobilization. Since then, he and Taylor have given nearly $240 million to federal candidates, parties and committees, placing them among the nation’s top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, NextGen backed ballot initiatives in Arizona and Nevada that would require the states to get half their electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Voters rejected the measure in Arizona, but approved it in Nevada. In Michigan, his group \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/644b380367ee4cfea3cdffb6a02af6f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withdrew a similar initiative\u003c/a> after two utilities agreed to buy 25 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steyer’s campaign published an \u003c/span>extensive “Justice-Centered”\u003ca href=\"https://www.tomsteyer.com/climate-plan-framework/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> climate plan\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that includes a commitment to declare climate change a national emergency and support for Green New Deal legislation. The plan aims for 100 percent clean electricity by 2040 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 across all sectors, including homes and buildings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Steyer says he would build a community-based network to inform his policies and a “Civilian Climate Corps” that would be funded with $250 billion in bonds over a decade and intended to create 1 million jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His plan would commit $50 billion to wages and benefits to help fossil fuel workers to “thrive in a cleaner, more inclusive economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Without mentioning a carbon tax, Steyer says he would eliminate “all forms of government giveaways” to fossil fuel companies, “including unlimited and unpriced global warming pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Steyer says he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.tomsteyer.com/infrastructure-creation-at-a-glance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commit $2 trillion\u003c/a> over a decade to make infrastructure more climate-friendly and resilient, which he anticipates would mobilize an additional $4 trillion from non-federal sources. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly half of likely California Democratic voters in a December 2019 poll \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957119/climate-change-is-a-top-issue-for-californias-democrats-heres-where-the-candidates-stand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">named climate change \u003c/a>as their highest priority for the next president. Here are how the candidates stack up against each other on some key proposals. Below that are some of the actions they’ve already taken related to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Democratic Candidates’ Climate Plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/hzj5n/1/\" height=\"490\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Democratic Candidates’ Key Climate Achievements\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4Wlbv/1/\" height=\"490\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>The candidates for the Democratic nomination all agree that the country needs to reverse course from the Trump administration’s current policy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">embracing fossil fuels\u003c/a>. Elizabeth Warren, for example, has called Trump the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/05/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-climate-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate denier-in-chief\u003c/a>.” Bernie Sanders said Trump is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/bernie-sanders-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dangerously wrong\u003c/a>” on the issue. Joe Biden said Trump has “abdicated leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]All of the candidates agree on several key climate policies: They all believe the U.S. should rejoin the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935922/nations-agree-on-rules-to-put-paris-climate-agreement-into-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris climate agreement\u003c/a>; they all want to stop issuing fossil fuel leases on public lands; and all of them except Elizabeth Warren want to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. Warren is even more ambitious, with a net-zero target of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal Spending\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the candidates don’t agree on how quickly the country should stop fracking and burning natural gas or how much the federal government should spend to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have all proposed at least a trillion dollars in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Bloomberg’s climate plan states that he “will quadruple the federal R&D investment in clean energy and a clean grid to at least $25 billion a year,” but, as NPR \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/758173003/climate-issues-where-2020-democrats-stand-on-the-green-new-deal-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">points out\u003c/a>, the plan is not clear about overall spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Green New Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green New Deal is the congressional resolution that lays out a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/climate/green-new-deal-questions-answers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand plan\u003c/a> for tackling climate change. The legislation is co-sponsored by senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar; all of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination have endorsed at least portions of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar’s detailed \u003ca href=\"https://amyklobuchar.com/issue/climate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">description\u003c/a> of her climate plan does not mention the Green New Deal, however, and she has called the plan aspirational rather than prescriptive, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/429719-klobuchar-on-green-new-deal-i-see-it-as-aspirational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN \u003c/a>that it doesn’t make sense to “get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years,” while it does make sense to “start doing concrete things, and put some aspirations out there on climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg also did not embrace the Green New Deal in his climate plan, but he has said that he supports the climate portions of it. He stresses that climate activists should focus on what’s doable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Price on Carbon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists and some climate scientists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/opinion/climate-change-carbon-price.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argued\u003c/a> that the best way to fight climate change is to put a price on emitting planet- warming greenhouse gases and raise that price incrementally over a period of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren did not mention a price on carbon in her detailed climate proposals, but her campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/758173003/climate-issues-where-2020-democrats-stand-on-the-green-new-deal-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told\u003c/a> NPR that she is “open to a carbon tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders’ plan says he will “massively” raise taxes on corporate polluters’ and “raise penalties on pollution from fossil fuel energy generation.” His campaign told NPR that “a price on carbon must be part of a larger strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Bloomberg has endorsed the idea of a federal carbon tax in the past, but his climate plan does not include a price on carbon, at least not yet. “Putting a price on carbon should be one among many actions the federal government takes to combat climate change,” his campaign told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fracking Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Biden and Bloomberg have called for increased fracking oversight, but their climate plans do not mention a fracking ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The people are on our side when it comes to climate change. Why? Because like you and I, they believe in science.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>—Amy Klobuchar, \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/10/amy-klobuchars-big-speech-today-heres-a-sneak-peak/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks of Fran, a woman she met in Pacific Junction, Iowa, along the Nebraska border during recent flooding. “Hanging there on her neck was this pair of binoculars. She had me look through them and she says, ‘This is my house, I bought it with my husband, our 4-year-old twins, we were going to retire in this house, and now it’s halfway underwater.'” It’s a personal connection, but is it enough to elevate the Minnesota senator above the other candidates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months into her first Senate term in 2007, Klobuchar introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/senate-bill/1387?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22klobuchar%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bill\u003c/a> to start a carbon-tracking program as a step toward a cap-and-trade system to address climate change. Another bill of hers called for an expansion of renewable energy tax credits, provisions of which later became law as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Klobuchar’s “\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@AmyforAmerica/senator-klobuchars-plan-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-b1133845d2bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan to Tackle the Climate Crisis\u003c/a>,” released in September, stands out for its emphasis on using presidential powers to quickly restore climate and clean energy policies that the Trump administration has rolled back. She promises within her first 100 days to restore the Clean Power Plan to reduce power plant emissions; revive fuel economy standards for vehicles; strengthen enforcement of the Clean Air Act; and recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Her climate plan sets a goal of net zero emissions by 2050, along the lines of what \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102018/ipcc-climate-change-science-report-data-carbon-emissions-heat-waves-extreme-weather-oil-gas-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science says\u003c/a> is needed to meet the Paris goals, though she provides fewer details than other candidates on how to get there. She proposes a $1 trillion energy infrastructure package and talks about using grants, tax credits and model building codes to encourage investment in clean energy and energy efficiency. She also mentions streamlining the permitting process for renewable energy production on federal land and investing in electric vehicle infrastructure, public transit and revitalizing rail transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• While Klobuchar co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution in Congress, she hasn’t embraced it in her climate plan. She has called it aspirational rather than prescriptive, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/429719-klobuchar-on-green-new-deal-i-see-it-as-aspirational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN\u003c/a> that it doesn’t make sense to “get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years,” while it does make sense to “start doing concrete things, and put some aspirations out there on climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To help pay for energy infrastructure investments, Klobuchar says she would work with Congress to put a price on carbon pollution. Her plan doesn’t say what form that would take beyond stressing that it would not be regressive. She also proposes clean energy bonds to raise money and ending federal fossil fuel subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She answered a Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/climate-change/?utm_term=.609e4a1a6612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questionnaire\u003c/a> on fracking by saying she doesn’t want to ban the method of extracting oil and gas, but would like to regulate it better. Her climate plan does, however, propose banning new fossil fuel permitting on federal land. She has said that “safe nuclear power” along with “cleaner coal technologies” should continue to be developed as part of a comprehensive energy strategy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/homegrown-energy-environment-natural-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an issue brief\u003c/a> on her Senate website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She supports research into carbon capture and storage technology and co-sponsored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-promoting-carbon-capture-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 bill\u003c/a> to expand a tax credit to help carbon capture research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In her climate plan, Klobuchar also talks about the importance of bringing science back into decision-making in Washington. She says she wants to “hold the fossil fuel industry accountable” for climate change and mentions working to get a constitutional amendment “to get dark money out of our politics.” She signed the \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/444593-klobuchar-becomes-13th-democratic-candidate-to-pledge-not-to-accept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Fossil Fuel Funding\u003c/a> pledge in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2019-02-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes herself\u003c/a> as a progressive who can still win moderate voters in swing states such as Iowa and Wisconsin. On climate issues, however, her tone and some of her positions mean that much of the Democratic field is to her left. She is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution but says it shouldn’t be taken literally, and she shies away from stances that could be branded as extreme, such as banning fracking. But she can argue that her actions on climate and the environment are progressive, as shown by her 96 percent lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters and her early support for a cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Amy Klobuchar’s \u003ca href=\"https://amyklobuchar.com/combating-climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She promises within her first 100 days to restore the Clean Power Plan to reduce power plant emissions; revive fuel economy standards for vehicles; strengthen enforcement of the Clean Air Act; and recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Her climate plan sets a goal of net zero emissions by 2050, along the lines of what \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102018/ipcc-climate-change-science-report-data-carbon-emissions-heat-waves-extreme-weather-oil-gas-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science says\u003c/a> is needed to meet the Paris goals, though she provides fewer details than other candidates on how to get there. She proposes a $1 trillion energy infrastructure package and talks about using grants, tax credits and model building codes to encourage investment in clean energy and energy efficiency. She also mentions streamlining the permitting process for renewable energy production on federal land and investing in electric vehicle infrastructure, public transit and revitalizing rail transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• While Klobuchar co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution in Congress, she hasn’t embraced it in her climate plan. She has called it aspirational rather than prescriptive, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/429719-klobuchar-on-green-new-deal-i-see-it-as-aspirational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN\u003c/a> that it doesn’t make sense to “get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years,” while it does make sense to “start doing concrete things, and put some aspirations out there on climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To help pay for energy infrastructure investments, Klobuchar says she would work with Congress to put a price on carbon pollution. Her plan doesn’t say what form that would take beyond stressing that it would not be regressive. She also proposes clean energy bonds to raise money and ending federal fossil fuel subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She answered a Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/climate-change/?utm_term=.609e4a1a6612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questionnaire\u003c/a> on fracking by saying she doesn’t want to ban the method of extracting oil and gas, but would like to regulate it better. Her climate plan does, however, propose banning new fossil fuel permitting on federal land. She has said that “safe nuclear power” along with “cleaner coal technologies” should continue to be developed as part of a comprehensive energy strategy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/homegrown-energy-environment-natural-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an issue brief\u003c/a> on her Senate website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• She supports research into carbon capture and storage technology and co-sponsored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-promoting-carbon-capture-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 bill\u003c/a> to expand a tax credit to help carbon capture research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In her climate plan, Klobuchar also talks about the importance of bringing science back into decision-making in Washington. 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She is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution but says it shouldn’t be taken literally, and she shies away from stances that could be branded as extreme, such as banning fracking. But she can argue that her actions on climate and the environment are progressive, as shown by her 96 percent lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters and her early support for a cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Amy Klobuchar’s \u003ca href=\"https://amyklobuchar.com/combating-climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘If this generation doesn’t step up, we’re in trouble. This is, after all, the generation that’s gonna be on the business end of climate change for as long as we live.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>—Pete Buttigieg, \u003ca href=\"https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=19-P13-00015&segmentID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, often talks about the surprising catastrophic flooding that hit his city twice in two years after he took office. A 1,000-year flood occurred in 2016. Then, in early 2018, a 500-year flood hit, costing millions and damaging thousands of homes. “For as long as we’re alive, and the younger you are the more you have on the line, you know our adult lives are going to be dominated by the increased severity and frequency of weather and even crazy chain reactions that happen,” Buttigieg wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Indiana is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=IN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavily coal reliant\u003c/a>, its state leadership across the board is Republican, and it has passed so-called \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/47/3/403/3852645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-emption laws \u003c/a>that curtail local initiatives to address climate change and fossil fuel use. Yet, Buttigieg set up an Office of Sustainability for South Bend. In the aftermath of the U.S. exit from the Paris climate accord, the city has jumped aboard campaigns by mayors to meet the treaty’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve continued to demonstrate our climate values by building LEED-certified fire stations, introducing free electric vehicle charging stations, empowering national service members to improve energy efficiency in low-income neighborhoods, and mentoring other Indiana cities seeking to lead on climate issues,” Buttigieg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration is also working to repair remaining damage from recent flooding and to ensure that vulnerable South Bend neighborhoods don’t get battered again. The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/a-year-after-historic-south-bend-area-floods-damage-remains/article_38db74dd-b1df-5062-ad7b-6acb91694ef7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a contract to install gates \u003c/a>on stormwater pipes that drain into the river, for the next time it reaches flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Buttigieg released a \u003ca href=\"https://peteforamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Climate-Plan-White-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate plan\u003c/a> in September in which he vowed to implement “a bold and achievable Green New Deal” and laid out an ambitious pathway to net zero emissions economy-wide by 2050 that focuses on expanding clean energy jobs and making the United States the world’s clean tech leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• By 2035, he envisions a zero-emissions electricity system and all new passenger vehicles being zero emissions, with help from electric vehicle tax credits of up to $10,000 per vehicle. By 2040, he sees requiring net zero emissions for all new heavy-duty vehicles, buses, trains, ships and aircraft, and having “a thriving carbon removal industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His plan to create 3 million new jobs includes a 10-year, $200 billion commitment to retrain workers displaced in the transition away from fossil fuels. He also has a plan to create a \u003ca href=\"https://peteforamerica.com/national-service-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Corps service program\u003c/a> focused on helping communities build resilience and sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Buttigieg calls for “quadrupling federal research and development funding” for renewable energy and energy storage, investing $200 billion over 10 years, and spending $550 billion on deploying clean energy technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• He also envisions a bigger U.S. international leadership role on both climate change and the global clean energy transition, in part by developing a $250 billion “Global Investment Initiative” that would boost projects in developing countries that use U.S. technology. Buttigieg says he would recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement and revitalize U.S. climate leadership in the Arctic Council “so we can reduce emissions and oppose drilling in that region.” A former U.S. Naval Reserve officer, Buttigieg wants to increase the military’s climate planning and create a senior climate security position in the Defense Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To nudge industries and consumers toward low-emissions choices, Buttigieg proposes an economy-wide carbon price with a dividend that would be sent to households to help offset higher costs. He also proposes a \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072018/trade-war-trump-tariffs-border-tax-carbon-footprint-fossil-fuels-climate-change-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">border adjustment tax\u003c/a> on any imports not already subject to a carbon price in their home country. He wants to launch a $250 billion national green bank to funnel financing for clean energy projects into disadvantaged communities “where private capital is reluctant to go,” particularly in middle America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• He also spells out the climate roles American farmers could play. “There are some estimates that through better soil management, soil could capture a level of carbon equivalent to the entire global transportation industry,” Buttigieg told a young questioner at an MSNBC town hall in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Buttigieg has said he would ban all new fossil fuel development on federal lands. He wrote: “I favor a ban on new fracking and a rapid end to existing fracking so that we can build a 100 percent clean energy society as soon as possible.” He signed the \u003ca href=\"http://nofossilfuelmoney.org/presidential-signers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buttigieg, at age 37, is the youngest candidate in the Democratic primary. So, when the inevitable first question comes asking if he’s too young to run for president, Buttigieg points to climate change as a big reason for his candidacy. He explains that around midcentury, when he’s President Donald Trump’s current age, his generation will be suffering some of the worst effects of climate change if nothing is done now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buttigieg’s climate plan is generally more restrained on spending than those of other candidates, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, but it also includes some different ideas, particularly around America’s international role and climate planning and preparedness in the military. In a tacit nod to the links between his military record and his recognition of the climate crisis, his website lists climate change under the rubric of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Pete Buttigieg’s \u003ca href=\"https://peteforamerica.com/issues/#ClimateChange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/icn-weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Buttigieg says he would recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate agreement and revitalize U.S. climate leadership in the Arctic Council “so we can reduce emissions and oppose drilling in that region.” A former U.S. Naval Reserve officer, Buttigieg wants to increase the military’s climate planning and create a senior climate security position in the Defense Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To nudge industries and consumers toward low-emissions choices, Buttigieg proposes an economy-wide carbon price with a dividend that would be sent to households to help offset higher costs. He also proposes a \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072018/trade-war-trump-tariffs-border-tax-carbon-footprint-fossil-fuels-climate-change-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">border adjustment tax\u003c/a> on any imports not already subject to a carbon price in their home country. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘It’s almost like denying gravity now. … The willing suspension of disbelief can only be sustained for so long.’ \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n—Joe Biden on climate denial, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/eGH_vkC2B80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the current candidates, only former Vice President Joseph Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/president/debates/transcripts/vice-presidential-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debated a Republican opponent\u003c/a> during a past contest for the White House, when he was Barack Obama’s running mate and took on Sarah Palin in 2008. It’s a moment that might come back to haunt him, because in a brief discussion of climate change — a chance to trounce her on the question of science denial or fossil fuel favoritism — he instead \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eFAKl66fhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slipped into\u003c/a> a discussion of what he called “clean coal,” which he said he had favored for 25 years. He explained it away as a reference to exporting American energy technology. But his loose language, taken in today’s context, sounds archaic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden likes to say he was among the first to introduce a climate change bill in the Senate, and fact checkers\u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/08/joe-biden/was-joe-biden-climate-change-pioneer-congress-hist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> generally agree\u003c/a>. It was the Global Climate Protection Act of 1986 that was largely put into a spending bill in 1987. The Reagan administration pretty much ignored it, but the bill did \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title15/html/USCODE-2011-title15-chap56.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call for\u003c/a> an EPA national policy on climate change, and annual \u003ca href=\"https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZWK.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=(Protection%20Act)%20OR%20FNAME=%229101OZWK.txt%22%20AND%20FNAME=%229101OZWK.txt%22&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D:%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZWK.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&slide#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports\u003c/a> to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden was in the Senate 36 years, and he had a lifetime environmental voting score of 83 percent from the League of Conservation Voters. In 2007, he \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-416-energy-legislation-fuel-efficiency-and-clean-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported\u003c/a> higher fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles, which passed; and in 2003, \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2003-420-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modest caps\u003c/a> on greenhouse gas emissions, which didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But his longevity is a liability, because the longer the voting record, the more contradictions. He \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2008-145-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">missed\u003c/a> a key vote in 2008 on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which was\u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812836,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> said\u003c/a> to be the strongest global warming bill to ever make it to the Senate floor. Biden also \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060118559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposed\u003c/a> tightening fuel efficiency standards earlier in his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Biden-Obama administration was strong on climate change, especially in its second term, notably achieving the landmark Paris climate agreement, \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/25/remarks-president-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asserting\u003c/a> climate action and jobs go hand in hand. It pushed through auto fuel economy standards that deeply cut emissions. It also produced regulations on coal-fired power plants, though the rule was stymied by litigation and has been \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062019/trump-clean-power-plan-climate-emissions-rule-replacement-coal-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replaced\u003c/a> with a weaker rule by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often overlooked, the Obama era stimulus package of 2009 included big investments in climate-friendly research and infrastructure. But Biden is also tethered to Obama’s “\u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/29/new-report-all-above-energy-strategy-path-sustainable-economic-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all-of-the-above\u003c/a>” philosophy, which left ample room for the fracking boom that bolstered one fossil fuel, natural gas, over another, coal, and put the U.S. on track to become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world’s leading\u003c/a> oil producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Biden surprised some activists and pundits in June when he \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062019/joe-biden-climate-change-plan-presidential-candidates-green-new-deal-clean-energy-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presented\u003c/a> his campaign’s first climate platform. It went further than many of his previous positions, and embraced the Green New Deal as a “crucial framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Biden foresees $1.7 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, and $3.3 trillion in investments by the private sector and state and local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• He wants Congress to pass emissions limits with “an enforcement mechanism … based on the principles that polluters must bear the full cost of the carbon pollution they are emitting.” He said it would include “clear, legally binding emissions reductions,” but did not give details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In July, Biden \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072019/agriculture-climate-solution-election-2020-biden-warren-sanders-soil-carbon-conservation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072019/agriculture-climate-solution-election-2020-biden-warren-sanders-soil-carbon-conservation&source=gmail&ust=1563633898696000&usg=AFQjCNFC7_0Yl5FQOhlCvC0F7TZdLUMfrQ\">released a policy agenda\u003c/a> that aims to boost the rural economy, in part by expanding a program that will pay farmers to use farming techniques that store carbon in the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His plan also calls for support for economically impacted communities. He was slow to agree with activists’ calls for him to swear off campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests, but did \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1144357988523659264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign\u003c/a> the No Fossil Fuel Funding pledge on June 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden has signaled he will embrace central concepts of the Green New Deal — that the world needs to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and that the environment and economy are connected. He was slower to do so, and for that reason he has faced criticism from young, impatient voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That compounds the challenge of explaining Senate votes that took place a long time ago. But Biden is known for his ability to communicate with blue-collar voters who abandoned Democrats for Trump, as well as older voters who have turned out in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/climate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden’s climate platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Neq_CwpkPvsGmMG7hVOy7A?domain=insideclimatenews.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden likes to say he was among the first to introduce a climate change bill in the Senate, and fact checkers\u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/08/joe-biden/was-joe-biden-climate-change-pioneer-congress-hist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> generally agree\u003c/a>. It was the Global Climate Protection Act of 1986 that was largely put into a spending bill in 1987. The Reagan administration pretty much ignored it, but the bill did \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title15/html/USCODE-2011-title15-chap56.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call for\u003c/a> an EPA national policy on climate change, and annual \u003ca href=\"https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9101OZWK.txt?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1991%20Thru%201994&Docs=&Query=(Protection%20Act)%20OR%20FNAME=%229101OZWK.txt%22%20AND%20FNAME=%229101OZWK.txt%22&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D:%5CZYFILES%5CINDEX%20DATA%5C91THRU94%5CTXT%5C00000030%5C9101OZWK.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&slide#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports\u003c/a> to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden was in the Senate 36 years, and he had a lifetime environmental voting score of 83 percent from the League of Conservation Voters. In 2007, he \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-416-energy-legislation-fuel-efficiency-and-clean-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported\u003c/a> higher fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles, which passed; and in 2003, \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2003-420-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modest caps\u003c/a> on greenhouse gas emissions, which didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But his longevity is a liability, because the longer the voting record, the more contradictions. He \u003ca href=\"https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2008-145-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">missed\u003c/a> a key vote in 2008 on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which was\u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812836,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> said\u003c/a> to be the strongest global warming bill to ever make it to the Senate floor. Biden also \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060118559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposed\u003c/a> tightening fuel efficiency standards earlier in his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Biden-Obama administration was strong on climate change, especially in its second term, notably achieving the landmark Paris climate agreement, \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/25/remarks-president-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asserting\u003c/a> climate action and jobs go hand in hand. It pushed through auto fuel economy standards that deeply cut emissions. It also produced regulations on coal-fired power plants, though the rule was stymied by litigation and has been \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062019/trump-clean-power-plan-climate-emissions-rule-replacement-coal-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replaced\u003c/a> with a weaker rule by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often overlooked, the Obama era stimulus package of 2009 included big investments in climate-friendly research and infrastructure. But Biden is also tethered to Obama’s “\u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/29/new-report-all-above-energy-strategy-path-sustainable-economic-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all-of-the-above\u003c/a>” philosophy, which left ample room for the fracking boom that bolstered one fossil fuel, natural gas, over another, coal, and put the U.S. on track to become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world’s leading\u003c/a> oil producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Biden surprised some activists and pundits in June when he \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062019/joe-biden-climate-change-plan-presidential-candidates-green-new-deal-clean-energy-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presented\u003c/a> his campaign’s first climate platform. It went further than many of his previous positions, and embraced the Green New Deal as a “crucial framework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Biden foresees $1.7 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, and $3.3 trillion in investments by the private sector and state and local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• He wants Congress to pass emissions limits with “an enforcement mechanism … based on the principles that polluters must bear the full cost of the carbon pollution they are emitting.” He said it would include “clear, legally binding emissions reductions,” but did not give details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In July, Biden \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072019/agriculture-climate-solution-election-2020-biden-warren-sanders-soil-carbon-conservation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072019/agriculture-climate-solution-election-2020-biden-warren-sanders-soil-carbon-conservation&source=gmail&ust=1563633898696000&usg=AFQjCNFC7_0Yl5FQOhlCvC0F7TZdLUMfrQ\">released a policy agenda\u003c/a> that aims to boost the rural economy, in part by expanding a program that will pay farmers to use farming techniques that store carbon in the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His plan also calls for support for economically impacted communities. He was slow to agree with activists’ calls for him to swear off campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests, but did \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1144357988523659264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign\u003c/a> the No Fossil Fuel Funding pledge on June 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden has signaled he will embrace central concepts of the Green New Deal — that the world needs to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and that the environment and economy are connected. He was slower to do so, and for that reason he has faced criticism from young, impatient voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That compounds the challenge of explaining Senate votes that took place a long time ago. But Biden is known for his ability to communicate with blue-collar voters who abandoned Democrats for Trump, as well as older voters who have turned out in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/climate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden’s climate platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Neq_CwpkPvsGmMG7hVOy7A?domain=insideclimatenews.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cem>“There is no ‘middle ground’ when it comes to climate policy.”\u003c/em>\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n—Bernie Sanders, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1126899050555564032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropical Storm Irene — which in 2011 caused the deaths of six people in Vermont, forced thousands from their homes and washed away hundreds of bridges and miles of roads — was a wake-up call for a state where Sen. Bernie Sanders is a thoroughly established favorite son. “No one thought a northern state like Vermont would be hit by such a strong tropical storm,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/five-years-since-irene-report-warns-of-severe-weather-damage-from-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sanders said.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Sanders often says he introduced “the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/764567986858405888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most comprehensive\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> climate change legislation in the history of the United States Senate.” It was a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-boxer-propose-climate-change-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon tax-and-dividend\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bill and accompanying clean energy bill co-sponsored with then-Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in 2013. The bills were dead on arrival, but they marked an important shift in the Democratic drive for climate action —a pivot away from the cap-and-trade approach that had foundered, and toward carbon taxation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders’ biggest legislative climate accomplishment was a national energy efficiency grant program he introduced during his first year in the Senate. It passed in 2007. He successfully pushed for $3.2 billion for the program to be included in the Obama administration’s 2009 economic recovery package. The grants were the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/eere/wipo/energy-efficiency-and-conservation-block-grant-program\">largest investment\u003c/a> in energy efficiency and renewable energy at the community level in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• The sweeping energy and social transformation known as the Green New Deal is central to the Sanders campaign, and he has left more fingerprints on it than any of the other senators running for president who co-sponsored it. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who propelled it into the center ring in Washington, got her electoral start working for Sanders in his 2016 campaign. And with its emphasis on social justice, working class jobs, health care and spending without regard to revenue sources, it echoes the ideas of Sanders’ long-time economic adviser, Stephanie Kelton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• On Aug. 22, Sanders announced the most ambitious \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/the-green-new-deal/\">climate plan\u003c/a> yet among the candidates. It promises to declare climate change a national emergency and put the Green New Deal into action by investing $16.3 trillion in a 10-year mobilization “that factors climate change into virtually every area of policy.” That dollar figure is far higher than what other candidates are proposing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His mobilization includes creating 20 million new jobs in clean energy, energy efficiency and technology, transforming the agricultural system for more sustainable farming and breaking up big agribusinesses and getting to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, with complete decarbonization by 2050. In doing so, he focuses heavily on environmental justice and equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To pay for it, Sanders said he would eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, cut back military spending related to oil, increase penalties for power plant emissions and “massively” raise taxes on fossil fuel income and wealth, among other steps. His plan doesn’t specifically mention a carbon tax, though Sanders has long advocated an aggressive one, and a carbon tax was included in the Democratic Party \u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">platform\u003c/a> in 2016 at his campaign’s behest. He also relies on expected new tax income from the jobs created and a drop in social safety net costs if more people are working. His plan mentions “making the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Sanders’ consistent climate change message can be summed up in a few words: It’s real, it’s here, we caused it and we need to shift the whole economy away from fossil fuels. So he supports nationwide bans on fracking, on new fossil fuel infrastructure and on fossil fuel leases on public lands. He supports high-speed rail, electric vehicles and public transit. He has called for phasing out nuclear energy, and he supports spending money for adaptations to climate change, such as defenses against wildfires, floods, drought and hurricanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Having built his last campaign on small individual donations, Sanders was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/11/sanders-first-sign-fix-democracy-pledge-rejecting-fossil-fuel-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first presidential candidate\u003c/a> to sign the No Fossil Fuel Funding pledge launched by climate and justice groups in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders, with his open defense of democratic socialism, defines the leftist boundary of presidential politics while also staking out a populist territory that resonated well in 2016. His explicit aim is to “keep oil, gas and coal in the ground.” Although his signature campaign proposals (Medicare-for-All, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour) aren’t about climate, the Green New Deal allows Sanders to use climate action as a vehicle for his economic and social justice aims. His proposal for a federal jobs guarantee would be tied to the need for workers to build infrastructure to aid in a clean energy transition as well as to help communities with restoration and resilience. Whether or not he emerges as the nominee, his base of voters, and his ideas, will deeply influence the 2020 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cem style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read Bernie Sanders’ \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/the-green-new-deal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• The sweeping energy and social transformation known as the Green New Deal is central to the Sanders campaign, and he has left more fingerprints on it than any of the other senators running for president who co-sponsored it. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who propelled it into the center ring in Washington, got her electoral start working for Sanders in his 2016 campaign. And with its emphasis on social justice, working class jobs, health care and spending without regard to revenue sources, it echoes the ideas of Sanders’ long-time economic adviser, Stephanie Kelton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• On Aug. 22, Sanders announced the most ambitious \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/the-green-new-deal/\">climate plan\u003c/a> yet among the candidates. It promises to declare climate change a national emergency and put the Green New Deal into action by investing $16.3 trillion in a 10-year mobilization “that factors climate change into virtually every area of policy.” That dollar figure is far higher than what other candidates are proposing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His mobilization includes creating 20 million new jobs in clean energy, energy efficiency and technology, transforming the agricultural system for more sustainable farming and breaking up big agribusinesses and getting to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, with complete decarbonization by 2050. In doing so, he focuses heavily on environmental justice and equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• To pay for it, Sanders said he would eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, cut back military spending related to oil, increase penalties for power plant emissions and “massively” raise taxes on fossil fuel income and wealth, among other steps. His plan doesn’t specifically mention a carbon tax, though Sanders has long advocated an aggressive one, and a carbon tax was included in the Democratic Party \u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">platform\u003c/a> in 2016 at his campaign’s behest. He also relies on expected new tax income from the jobs created and a drop in social safety net costs if more people are working. His plan mentions “making the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Sanders’ consistent climate change message can be summed up in a few words: It’s real, it’s here, we caused it and we need to shift the whole economy away from fossil fuels. So he supports nationwide bans on fracking, on new fossil fuel infrastructure and on fossil fuel leases on public lands. He supports high-speed rail, electric vehicles and public transit. He has called for phasing out nuclear energy, and he supports spending money for adaptations to climate change, such as defenses against wildfires, floods, drought and hurricanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Having built his last campaign on small individual donations, Sanders was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/11/sanders-first-sign-fix-democracy-pledge-rejecting-fossil-fuel-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first presidential candidate\u003c/a> to sign the No Fossil Fuel Funding pledge launched by climate and justice groups in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders, with his open defense of democratic socialism, defines the leftist boundary of presidential politics while also staking out a populist territory that resonated well in 2016. His explicit aim is to “keep oil, gas and coal in the ground.” Although his signature campaign proposals (Medicare-for-All, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour) aren’t about climate, the Green New Deal allows Sanders to use climate action as a vehicle for his economic and social justice aims. His proposal for a federal jobs guarantee would be tied to the need for workers to build infrastructure to aid in a clean energy transition as well as to help communities with restoration and resilience. 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"title": "Michael Bloomberg Climate Profile: Shutting Down Coal and Focusing on What's Doable",
"headTitle": "Michael Bloomberg Climate Profile: Shutting Down Coal and Focusing on What’s Doable | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘A decade ago no one would have believed that we could take on the coal industry and close half of all U.S. plants. But we have. … And now, we will take on the fossil fuel industry to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. I believe we will succeed again.’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>—Michael Bloomberg, \u003ca href=\"http://news.mit.edu/2019/michael-bloomberg-commencement-address-0607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Superstorm Sandy hit New York in 2012, it stirred the seas to 14 feet, rolling over the nation’s largest city with a force that flooded subway tunnels and left thousands homeless. Then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued evacuation orders that were widely ignored, and then endured criticism for attempting a return to normalcy too quickly. But the comprehensive climate action plans he developed in the wake of the storm were widely seen as \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20131118/bloombergs-hidden-legacy-climate-change-and-future-new-york-city-part-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most ambitious city-level efforts \u003c/a>in the world to mitigate and adapt to global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Bloomberg, 78, who switched parties to run for mayor as a Republican and then switched back to Democrat, has more experience in international climate diplomacy than any other Democratic candidate with the possible exception of former Vice President Joe Biden. He served as a United Nations climate envoy and as head of C40, an international organization of cities committed to climate action. He chaired the international \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Stability Board’s task force\u003c/a> that in 2017 developed voluntary guidelines for climate-related financial disclosures by businesses. With former California Gov. Jerry Brown, he launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.americaspledgeonclimate.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America’s Pledge\u003c/a> in 2017, bringing together cities, states and businesses committed to meeting the Paris climate goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg, the richest man in New York, has also devoted a portion of his $54 billion fortune to a drive to shut down fossil fuel plants, by bankrolling Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign and launching the new \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyondcarbon.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Carbon campaign\u003c/a> devoted to halting natural gas power now, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg has said he supports the climate portions of the Green New Deal, but he stresses that climate activists should focus on what’s doable. “Mother Nature does not wait on our political calendar, and neither can we,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-05/our-highest-office-my-deepest-obligation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he wrote\u003c/a> in March 2019. (At the time, he was promising not to run for president and to instead devote his efforts to a drive for clean energy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Like the other Democratic candidates, he has embraced goals in line with the science: \u003ca href=\"https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/plan-for-100-percent-clean-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 percent clean energy \u003c/a>by 2050, with interim goals of cutting emissions 50 percent by 2030 and ensuring 80 percent clean electricity by the end of his second term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg joined the race in November 2019, long after most other candidates. The first part of his climate plan focuses on cleaner electricity. He said he would work to shut down all 251 remaining U.S. coal plants, and work with community leaders and local officials to ensure that community transition plans are in place. A criticism of his Beyond Coal campaign with Sierra Club is that it didn’t pay enough attention to the impact on coal-dependent communities. Now, he says, he would “prioritize the frontline communities that have suffered most from coal pollution or have been left behind in the transition to clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg has also been criticized because many of the coal plants shut down in the Beyond Coal drive were converted to natural gas instead of being replaced by zero-emissions renewable energy. He now promises to curtail the drive for new natural gas plants if elected. But Greenpeace has \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/climate2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graded\u003c/a> Bloomberg’s climate platform a C+ because of his lack of a detailed plan for phasing out oil, gas and coal production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In the past, Bloomberg\u003ca href=\"https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2007/11/02/bloomberg-to-urge-carbon-tax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> endorsed the idea of a carbon tax\u003c/a> to help spur the transition to cleaner energy. But so far, pricing carbon has not been a part of his climate plan — instead he focuses on ending subsidies for fossil fuels and putting a moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases on federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg has promised to “embed environmental justice into how the government conducts its work.” He said the federal government should focus on rulemaking, enforcement and investments on communities disproportionately impacted by the production and use of coal and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• So far, Bloomberg has only talked about a relatively modest federal spending increase to achieve his climate goals — increasing federal research and development into clean energy to $25 billion a year, quadrupling current spending. In contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24062019/bernie-sanders-climate-change-global-warming-election-2020-candidate-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a> is talking about a $16.3 trillion mobilization and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24062019/joe-biden-climate-change-global-warming-election-2020-candidate-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden\u003c/a>, $1.7 trillion in new federal spending over the next 10 years. Bloomberg has promised more details on the financing of his climate plan in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On climate change, Bloomberg has experience unmatched in the presidential field — in international diplomacy through the U.N. and the Financial Stability Board; in philanthropy through the Sierra Club and the state and local coalitions he helped to build; and in managing New York City through crisis and recovery. Many credit him with laying the groundwork for state approval in early 2019 of a plan to cut New York City traffic through congestion pricing — an effort that makes him the only presidential candidate with vital experience as a government executive negotiating with a recalcitrant legislature over climate issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many ardent climate activists, the idea of backing a billionaire is out of step with the youth-led, economic-justice-focused agenda of the Green New Deal era. Bloomberg has made a nod to these voters, with his ubiquitous TV ads stressing that he’ll stand up to the coal lobby and raise taxes on the wealthy, while he clearly positions himself to capture more moderate voters. It’s not clear that his late entry into the race will give Bloomberg enough time to build the support he would need across the wide range of the Democratic coalition to win the party’s nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Michael Bloomberg’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/plan-for-100-percent-clean-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/pD-rCxklQwf1V61yTviMEq?domain=insideclimatenews.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bloomberg, 78, who switched parties to run for mayor as a Republican and then switched back to Democrat, has more experience in international climate diplomacy than any other Democratic candidate with the possible exception of former Vice President Joe Biden. He served as a United Nations climate envoy and as head of C40, an international organization of cities committed to climate action. He chaired the international \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Stability Board’s task force\u003c/a> that in 2017 developed voluntary guidelines for climate-related financial disclosures by businesses. With former California Gov. Jerry Brown, he launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.americaspledgeonclimate.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America’s Pledge\u003c/a> in 2017, bringing together cities, states and businesses committed to meeting the Paris climate goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg, the richest man in New York, has also devoted a portion of his $54 billion fortune to a drive to shut down fossil fuel plants, by bankrolling Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign and launching the new \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyondcarbon.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Carbon campaign\u003c/a> devoted to halting natural gas power now, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(At the time, he was promising not to run for president and to instead devote his efforts to a drive for clean energy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Like the other Democratic candidates, he has embraced goals in line with the science: \u003ca href=\"https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/plan-for-100-percent-clean-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 percent clean energy \u003c/a>by 2050, with interim goals of cutting emissions 50 percent by 2030 and ensuring 80 percent clean electricity by the end of his second term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg joined the race in November 2019, long after most other candidates. The first part of his climate plan focuses on cleaner electricity. He said he would work to shut down all 251 remaining U.S. coal plants, and work with community leaders and local officials to ensure that community transition plans are in place. A criticism of his Beyond Coal campaign with Sierra Club is that it didn’t pay enough attention to the impact on coal-dependent communities. Now, he says, he would “prioritize the frontline communities that have suffered most from coal pollution or have been left behind in the transition to clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg has also been criticized because many of the coal plants shut down in the Beyond Coal drive were converted to natural gas instead of being replaced by zero-emissions renewable energy. He now promises to curtail the drive for new natural gas plants if elected. But Greenpeace has \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/climate2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graded\u003c/a> Bloomberg’s climate platform a C+ because of his lack of a detailed plan for phasing out oil, gas and coal production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• In the past, Bloomberg\u003ca href=\"https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2007/11/02/bloomberg-to-urge-carbon-tax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> endorsed the idea of a carbon tax\u003c/a> to help spur the transition to cleaner energy. But so far, pricing carbon has not been a part of his climate plan — instead he focuses on ending subsidies for fossil fuels and putting a moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases on federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Bloomberg has promised to “embed environmental justice into how the government conducts its work.” He said the federal government should focus on rulemaking, enforcement and investments on communities disproportionately impacted by the production and use of coal and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• So far, Bloomberg has only talked about a relatively modest federal spending increase to achieve his climate goals — increasing federal research and development into clean energy to $25 billion a year, quadrupling current spending. 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Bloomberg has promised more details on the financing of his climate plan in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On climate change, Bloomberg has experience unmatched in the presidential field — in international diplomacy through the U.N. and the Financial Stability Board; in philanthropy through the Sierra Club and the state and local coalitions he helped to build; and in managing New York City through crisis and recovery. Many credit him with laying the groundwork for state approval in early 2019 of a plan to cut New York City traffic through congestion pricing — an effort that makes him the only presidential candidate with vital experience as a government executive negotiating with a recalcitrant legislature over climate issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many ardent climate activists, the idea of backing a billionaire is out of step with the youth-led, economic-justice-focused agenda of the Green New Deal era. Bloomberg has made a nod to these voters, with his ubiquitous TV ads stressing that he’ll stand up to the coal lobby and raise taxes on the wealthy, while he clearly positions himself to capture more moderate voters. It’s not clear that his late entry into the race will give Bloomberg enough time to build the support he would need across the wide range of the Democratic coalition to win the party’s nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Michael Bloomberg’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/plan-for-100-percent-clean-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate platform\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/pD-rCxklQwf1V61yTviMEq?domain=insideclimatenews.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>‘This is the start of a new era in American energy production and job creation. We will eliminate federal overreach, restore economic freedom and allow workers and companies to play on a level playing field for the first time in a long time, a long time. We’re going to have clean coal, really clean coal.’\u003cbr>\n—\u003c/em>Donald Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032017/trump-executive-order-climate-change-paris-climate-agreement-clean-power-plan-pruitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Been There\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]When U.S. government scientists released their latest volume of the \u003ca href=\"https://science2017.globalchange.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Climate Assessment\u003c/a>, it revealed much about the robust, sobering scientific consensus on climate change. It also revealed the striking disconnect between President Donald Trump and essentially every authoritative institution on the threat of global warming. The president rejected the assessment’s central findings — based on thousands of climate studies and involving 13 federal agencies — that emissions of carbon dioxide are caused by human activities, are already causing lasting economic damage, and have to be brought rapidly to zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I don’t believe it. No, no, I don’t believe it,” Trump said. Immediately, his cabinet members \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112018/fact-check-trump-climate-science-denial-national-assessment-sanders-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched attacks on the report\u003c/a>, portraying it as “alarmist” and clinging to Trump’s agenda of fossil fuel energy expansion that the science says is at the root of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Trump delivered his \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052016/donald-trump-republican-party-election-fossil-fuels-coal-oil-gas-fracking-climate-change-paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first major energy speech in the fracking fields of North Dakota\u003c/a> as a candidate in May 2016, he called for American domination of global energy supplies. To make that happen, he wanted an end to all of President Barack Obama’s executive actions involving greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are going to turn everything around,” Trump declared. “And quickly, very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As president, he has rolled back regulations on energy suppliers at a rapid clip slowed only at times\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29082019/methane-regulation-oil-gas-storage-pipelines-epa-rollback-trump-wheeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> by the courts,\u003c/a> while auctioning off millions of acres of new drilling leases on public land. Last year, domestic oil production hit a record high. The result of this, among other things, was the \u003ca href=\"https://rhg.com/research/preliminary-us-emissions-estimates-for-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reversal of three consecutive years of declining U.S. carbon emissions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump began the process of \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04112019/trump-pull-out-paris-climate-agreement-timing-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withdrawing the U.S.\u003c/a> from the Paris climate treaty, the agreement signed by nearly all nations to reduce fossil fuel emissions. He \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062019/trump-clean-power-plan-climate-emissions-rule-replacement-coal-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replaced Obama’s Clean Power Plan\u003c/a>, intended to sharply reduce emissions from U.S. power plants. He took the first step to weaken \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082018/trump-fuel-efficiency-standards-rollback-climate-change-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fuel economy standards for cars\u003c/a>, the single most important effort for reining in the largest driver of U.S. emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has undone or delayed — or tried to — most regulatory and executive actions related to climate change, while proposing new ones to accelerate fossil fuel development. Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law counts \u003ca href=\"https://climate.law.columbia.edu/climate-deregulation-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">131 actions\u003c/a> toward federal climate deregulation since Trump took office. In the absence of any comprehensive national climate law, those moves have led to an erosion of the federal government’s main regulatory levers for cutting global warming emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of those actions, including rollbacks of significant rules on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/court-hands-trump-defeat-in-bid-to-block-methane-emissions-rule.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">methane\u003c/a>\u003cu>,\u003c/u> \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02102019/cross-border-smog-ruling-coal-power-trump-obama-clean-air-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cross-state air pollution\u003c/a> regulations and \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/trump-court-roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">energy efficiency\u003c/a>, have been blocked or delayed by judges who have questioned the administration’s broad view of its legal authority. Some of those setbacks may be temporary, though, and the courts have yet to rule on the most consequential deregulatory actions. According to the administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agenda for 2020\u003c/a>, the president will try to fast-track as many more as possible before the end of his first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Promoting unfettered oil, natural gas and coal development \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRight out of the gate, Trump greased the wheels for fossil fuel development. He \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032017/trump-executive-order-climate-change-paris-climate-agreement-clean-power-plan-pruitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a sweeping executive order\u003c/a> directing all departments to target for elimination\u003ci>\u003cem> any \u003c/em>\u003c/i>rules that restrict U.S. production of energy. He set guidance to make it more difficult to put future regulations on fossil fuel industries, and he moved to discard the use of a rigorous “social cost of carbon,” a regulatory measurement that puts a price on the future damage society will pay for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted. He swiftly signed memorandums to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24012017/keystone-xl-dakota-pipeline-donald-trump-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines\u003c/a>, projects blocked by Obama. And later, with the Keystone XL still stalled, he issued executive orders aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042019/trump-pipeline-executive-order-environmental-review-keystone-xl-clean-water-act-states-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speeding approval and construction of fossil fuel projects\u003c/a> by limiting state environmental reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fossil fuel infrastructure adds to greenhouse gas emissions, in part by leaking methane into the atmosphere. Trump’s administration ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03032017/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency-methane-greenhouse-gas-climate-change\">stop gathering data from oil and gas companies\u003c/a> needed to rein in leaks of this potent short-lived climate pollutant. It later \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092018/methane-flaring-rules-oil-gas-industry-climate-change-obama-trump-epa-rollback\">loosened methane regulations\u003c/a> for projects on public and private land, despite the support for them among the industry’s biggest companies. It sought drilling in pristine areas where oil companies have long sought to drill. The administration \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28042017/doanld-trump-arctic-offshore-drilling-ban-obama-executive-order\">moved to lift Obama’s offshore Arctic drilling ban\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072017/arctic-offshore-drilling-trump-approved-eni-boem-alaska\">approved \u003c/a>a plan to drill wells there. It pushed to drill in the previously off-limits \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29032018/arctic-offshore-drilling-oil-lease-sale-beaufort-sea-alaska-trump-boem-2019\">Beaufort Sea\u003c/a>, in 1.6 million acres of the pristine \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12092019/congress-arctic-wildlife-refuge-oil-gas-drilling-offshore-trump-lease-sale-anwr\">Arctic National Wildlife Refuge\u003c/a>, and in nearly all of the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10012018/trump-offshore-oil-drilling-leases-florida-legal-questions-zinke-california-new-york-oregon\">Outer Continental Shelf\u003c/a>. It proposed to \u003ca href=\"https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/usfs-proposes-regulations-streamline-oil-and-gas-permitting-national-forests-0\">expedite oil and gas permits on national forest lands\u003c/a>, and it has limited how climate change can be used in \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082019/climate-change-endangered-species-act-arctic-trump-changes-polar-bears-wildlife\">determining endangered status for species\u003c/a>, further opening doors to drilling in sensitive areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Trying to restore King Coal to its throne \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMany of Trump’s regulations have been tailored to favor the coal industry, often at the expense of cheaper, cleaner energy. \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102017/climate-denial-coal-industry-global-warming-robert-murray-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Murray\u003c/a>, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjQsc3r95nmAhUOTt8KHRUBDY8QFjABegQIBxAG&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideclimatenews.org%2Fnews%2F29102019%2Fcoal-bankruptcy-bob-murray-energy-chapter-11-trump-regulations-rollback&usg=AOvVaw3hV8KEcoTw-zXHhcV1dbAu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now-bankrupt coal company Murray Energy\u003c/a> and one of Trump’s closest industry allies, gave the president a “wish list” early on that has become of virtual template for the administration’s rollback of regulations. The administration swiftly lifted an Obama moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands. It \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/coal-mining-environment-stream-rule-donald-trump-mussels-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rolled back a stream protection rule\u003c/a> designed to reduce the environmental and climate impact of mountaintop removal coal mining, and it has proposed allowing coal plants to emit much more CO2 by \u003ca href=\"https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/epa-proposes-less-stringent-emission-standards-new-coal-plants-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weakening New Source Review\u003c/a>, which requires big emitters to modernize pollution controls when they make major modifications to their facilities. It pushed a coal bailout rule that would have rewarded electric companies for keeping big stockpiles of fuel on hand. (\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08012018/ferc-regulators-reject-paying-coal-power-plants-nuclear-extra-trump-administration-perry-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. regulators rejected it\u003c/a>.) It also\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04112019/coal-ash-rules-rollback-trump-obama-water-pollution-power-plant-ponds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> further relaxed coal ash rules\u003c/a>, allowing coal utilities to keep unlined coal ash ponds open for years, making it less expensive to burn coal to produce electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Suppressing climate and related science\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn almost every agency overseeing energy, the environment and health, Trump selected top officials who dispute the mainstream consensus on the urgency of climate action. People with little scientific background, or strong ties to industries they would be regulating, were appointed to scientific leadership positions. One of the administration’s first actions was to order scientists and other employees at EPA and other agencies to halt public communications. Several federal scientists working on climate change have said they were silenced, sidelined or demoted. At least three—a senior employee at the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072017/whistleblower-trump-intimidation-abuse-power-climate-scientists-joel-clement-zinke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Interior\u003c/a>, one at the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16082019/cdc-scientist-whistleblower-complaint-climate-health-research-trump-usda-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> and another at the National Park Service—invoked whistleblower protections. Independent science advisors, such as members of the EPA’s \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08052017/epa-science-advisory-board-dismissed-scott-pruitt-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Board of Scientific Counselors\u003c/a>, have also been sidelined. Scientific content on government websites has been altered and the public’s access to data reduced. Climate data from the government’s open portal website was removed. So was the EPA’s climate change website. The words “climate change” have been purged from government reports, and other reports have been buried\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413\">,\u003c/a> including by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officials at the Department of Agriculture.\u003c/a> The administration even edited a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/10/pentagon-revised-obama-era-report-to-remove-risks-from-climate-change/?utm_term=.1174b4bd9f55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense Department report\u003c/a> to downplay its climate findings. Through speeches and tweets, the president has repeatedly spread misinformation to the public through his climate denial and denigration of renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA, meanwhile, is working to finalize its proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22032018/epa-air-pollution-soot-rules-scott-pruitt-secret-science-policy-health-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suppress the types of scientific evidence\u003c/a> the agency can use in writing its rules. This includes prohibiting the use of well-established, long-term scientific studies underpinning the nation’s air pollution rules, a change the fossil fuel industry had sought for years. Known as the “secret science” rule, it has been \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/11/25/science.aba3197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lambasted by scientists and health experts worldwide\u003c/a>. Related, the White House \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042019/trump-omb-secret-science-policy-memo-pollution-health-studies-heritage-foundation-vought\">issued a memo\u003c/a> offering new ways for fossil fuel and other industries to challenge science-based policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Undermining clean energy development and energy efficiency\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn its \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032019/trump-budget-cuts-renewable-energy-efficiency-electric-vehicle-tax-credit-deficit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget proposals\u003c/a>, the Trump administration has made clear its resolve to retreat from a federal role in advancing a clean energy economy and maintaining global leadership in the technology. It has proposed repeatedly to radically \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02042019/trump-budget-cuts-national-labs-clean-energy-leadership-solar-wind-electric-vehicles-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slash funding\u003c/a> for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), a move that would cripple support for novel and promising technologies for advanced wind turbines, high-tech materials, energy-efficient buildings and more. He has tried to eliminate tax credits for electric vehicles and made several attempts to eliminate the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, an incubator for cutting-edge energy research and development. Congress has largely rebuffed this scale of funding cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration issued in 2019 its final rule to dramatically weaken energy-efficient light bulb standards that Congress voted to phase in a decade ago. The standards would have eliminated inefficient light bulbs nationwide, saving some 1.5 trillion kilowatt-hours by 2030 and hundreds of millions tons of CO2. And it delayed for three years standards to substantially cut the energy that household and commercial appliances consume, moving to enact them only after \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/18-15380/18-15380-2019-10-10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a federal appeals court ruled \u003c/a>the hold was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Trying to undercut California’s world-leading climate progress\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAfter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082018/trump-fuel-efficiency-standards-rollback-climate-change-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freezing Obama’s national fuel-economy improvements\u003c/a>, the administration stripped California of its legal authority to enact the nation’s toughest fuel-efficiency standards, a move that could squelch the nascent U.S. market for zero-emission vehicles at a critical time. It sued the state over its cap-and-trade agreement with Quebec to lower fossil fuel emissions, arguing that California exceeded its authority when it launched. It has threatened action against California on air and water pollution. Those moves run counter to the administration’s hands-off approach and deregulatory agenda. Because of that—and because California has among the best compliance records in the nation on water pollution and has invested billions to improve air quality—former federal officials have said the efforts reek of political score-settling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn the Trump administration’s early days, climate policy optimists gamely sifted through the president’s statements, his administration’s actions, and other nations’ reactions for grains of hope. Perhaps Trump would be persuaded to maintain the United States’ seat at the table in international climate negotiations. Perhaps the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epas-pruitt-praised-for-effectiveness-hits-bumps-in-his-rollback-campaign/2018/05/20/c6ca13d8-53b3-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html?noredirect=on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">efforts\u003c/a> of his early, scandal-plagued cabinet members to erase climate regulation would fail. Or perhaps \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/4800747/china-climate-change-paris-agreement-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other nations would step up\u003c/a> to fill the climate leadership void created by Trump, and the world would forge ahead with the action needed to address the climate crisis, leaving the United States behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All such hopes have been in vain. Although Trump occasionally feigns concern about climate—”\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/03/its-possible-that-trump-doesnt-actually-know-what-climate-change-is/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I think about it all the time,\u003c/a>” he once said—his policy has been an unmitigated and relentless drive toward fossil energy development. The missteps of his former EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, and others in the first round of appointees, have been erased by seasoned Washington bureaucrats and lobbyists who now are at the helm of the environmental agencies. And instead of racing to grasp the leadership baton dropped by Trump, China, the European Union and other large carbon polluters are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/climate/cop25-un-climate-talks-madrid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">falling behind both in their own ambition and in support\u003c/a> for the nations most vulnerable to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump’s intentions, and his administration’s deleterious impact on global climate progress, will be evident to voters in 2020 in a way that many failed to grasp four years earlier. The only question is whether those who care about the planet’s future can unite as a political force in a way that eluded them in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957439/tom-steyer-climate-profile-a-justice-centered-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When U.S. government scientists released their latest volume of the \u003ca href=\"https://science2017.globalchange.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Climate Assessment\u003c/a>, it revealed much about the robust, sobering scientific consensus on climate change. It also revealed the striking disconnect between President Donald Trump and essentially every authoritative institution on the threat of global warming. The president rejected the assessment’s central findings — based on thousands of climate studies and involving 13 federal agencies — that emissions of carbon dioxide are caused by human activities, are already causing lasting economic damage, and have to be brought rapidly to zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I don’t believe it. No, no, I don’t believe it,” Trump said. Immediately, his cabinet members \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112018/fact-check-trump-climate-science-denial-national-assessment-sanders-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched attacks on the report\u003c/a>, portraying it as “alarmist” and clinging to Trump’s agenda of fossil fuel energy expansion that the science says is at the root of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Trump delivered his \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052016/donald-trump-republican-party-election-fossil-fuels-coal-oil-gas-fracking-climate-change-paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first major energy speech in the fracking fields of North Dakota\u003c/a> as a candidate in May 2016, he called for American domination of global energy supplies. To make that happen, he wanted an end to all of President Barack Obama’s executive actions involving greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are going to turn everything around,” Trump declared. “And quickly, very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As president, he has rolled back regulations on energy suppliers at a rapid clip slowed only at times\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29082019/methane-regulation-oil-gas-storage-pipelines-epa-rollback-trump-wheeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> by the courts,\u003c/a> while auctioning off millions of acres of new drilling leases on public land. Last year, domestic oil production hit a record high. The result of this, among other things, was the \u003ca href=\"https://rhg.com/research/preliminary-us-emissions-estimates-for-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reversal of three consecutive years of declining U.S. carbon emissions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump began the process of \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04112019/trump-pull-out-paris-climate-agreement-timing-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withdrawing the U.S.\u003c/a> from the Paris climate treaty, the agreement signed by nearly all nations to reduce fossil fuel emissions. He \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062019/trump-clean-power-plan-climate-emissions-rule-replacement-coal-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replaced Obama’s Clean Power Plan\u003c/a>, intended to sharply reduce emissions from U.S. power plants. He took the first step to weaken \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082018/trump-fuel-efficiency-standards-rollback-climate-change-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fuel economy standards for cars\u003c/a>, the single most important effort for reining in the largest driver of U.S. emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has undone or delayed — or tried to — most regulatory and executive actions related to climate change, while proposing new ones to accelerate fossil fuel development. Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law counts \u003ca href=\"https://climate.law.columbia.edu/climate-deregulation-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">131 actions\u003c/a> toward federal climate deregulation since Trump took office. In the absence of any comprehensive national climate law, those moves have led to an erosion of the federal government’s main regulatory levers for cutting global warming emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of those actions, including rollbacks of significant rules on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/court-hands-trump-defeat-in-bid-to-block-methane-emissions-rule.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">methane\u003c/a>\u003cu>,\u003c/u> \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02102019/cross-border-smog-ruling-coal-power-trump-obama-clean-air-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cross-state air pollution\u003c/a> regulations and \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/trump-court-roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">energy efficiency\u003c/a>, have been blocked or delayed by judges who have questioned the administration’s broad view of its legal authority. Some of those setbacks may be temporary, though, and the courts have yet to rule on the most consequential deregulatory actions. According to the administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agenda for 2020\u003c/a>, the president will try to fast-track as many more as possible before the end of his first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Promoting unfettered oil, natural gas and coal development \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRight out of the gate, Trump greased the wheels for fossil fuel development. He \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032017/trump-executive-order-climate-change-paris-climate-agreement-clean-power-plan-pruitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a sweeping executive order\u003c/a> directing all departments to target for elimination\u003ci>\u003cem> any \u003c/em>\u003c/i>rules that restrict U.S. production of energy. He set guidance to make it more difficult to put future regulations on fossil fuel industries, and he moved to discard the use of a rigorous “social cost of carbon,” a regulatory measurement that puts a price on the future damage society will pay for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted. He swiftly signed memorandums to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24012017/keystone-xl-dakota-pipeline-donald-trump-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines\u003c/a>, projects blocked by Obama. And later, with the Keystone XL still stalled, he issued executive orders aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042019/trump-pipeline-executive-order-environmental-review-keystone-xl-clean-water-act-states-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speeding approval and construction of fossil fuel projects\u003c/a> by limiting state environmental reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fossil fuel infrastructure adds to greenhouse gas emissions, in part by leaking methane into the atmosphere. Trump’s administration ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03032017/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency-methane-greenhouse-gas-climate-change\">stop gathering data from oil and gas companies\u003c/a> needed to rein in leaks of this potent short-lived climate pollutant. It later \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092018/methane-flaring-rules-oil-gas-industry-climate-change-obama-trump-epa-rollback\">loosened methane regulations\u003c/a> for projects on public and private land, despite the support for them among the industry’s biggest companies. It sought drilling in pristine areas where oil companies have long sought to drill. The administration \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28042017/doanld-trump-arctic-offshore-drilling-ban-obama-executive-order\">moved to lift Obama’s offshore Arctic drilling ban\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072017/arctic-offshore-drilling-trump-approved-eni-boem-alaska\">approved \u003c/a>a plan to drill wells there. It pushed to drill in the previously off-limits \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29032018/arctic-offshore-drilling-oil-lease-sale-beaufort-sea-alaska-trump-boem-2019\">Beaufort Sea\u003c/a>, in 1.6 million acres of the pristine \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12092019/congress-arctic-wildlife-refuge-oil-gas-drilling-offshore-trump-lease-sale-anwr\">Arctic National Wildlife Refuge\u003c/a>, and in nearly all of the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10012018/trump-offshore-oil-drilling-leases-florida-legal-questions-zinke-california-new-york-oregon\">Outer Continental Shelf\u003c/a>. It proposed to \u003ca href=\"https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/usfs-proposes-regulations-streamline-oil-and-gas-permitting-national-forests-0\">expedite oil and gas permits on national forest lands\u003c/a>, and it has limited how climate change can be used in \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082019/climate-change-endangered-species-act-arctic-trump-changes-polar-bears-wildlife\">determining endangered status for species\u003c/a>, further opening doors to drilling in sensitive areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Trying to restore King Coal to its throne \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMany of Trump’s regulations have been tailored to favor the coal industry, often at the expense of cheaper, cleaner energy. \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102017/climate-denial-coal-industry-global-warming-robert-murray-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Murray\u003c/a>, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjQsc3r95nmAhUOTt8KHRUBDY8QFjABegQIBxAG&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideclimatenews.org%2Fnews%2F29102019%2Fcoal-bankruptcy-bob-murray-energy-chapter-11-trump-regulations-rollback&usg=AOvVaw3hV8KEcoTw-zXHhcV1dbAu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now-bankrupt coal company Murray Energy\u003c/a> and one of Trump’s closest industry allies, gave the president a “wish list” early on that has become of virtual template for the administration’s rollback of regulations. The administration swiftly lifted an Obama moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands. It \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/coal-mining-environment-stream-rule-donald-trump-mussels-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rolled back a stream protection rule\u003c/a> designed to reduce the environmental and climate impact of mountaintop removal coal mining, and it has proposed allowing coal plants to emit much more CO2 by \u003ca href=\"https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/epa-proposes-less-stringent-emission-standards-new-coal-plants-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weakening New Source Review\u003c/a>, which requires big emitters to modernize pollution controls when they make major modifications to their facilities. It pushed a coal bailout rule that would have rewarded electric companies for keeping big stockpiles of fuel on hand. (\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08012018/ferc-regulators-reject-paying-coal-power-plants-nuclear-extra-trump-administration-perry-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. regulators rejected it\u003c/a>.) It also\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04112019/coal-ash-rules-rollback-trump-obama-water-pollution-power-plant-ponds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> further relaxed coal ash rules\u003c/a>, allowing coal utilities to keep unlined coal ash ponds open for years, making it less expensive to burn coal to produce electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Suppressing climate and related science\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn almost every agency overseeing energy, the environment and health, Trump selected top officials who dispute the mainstream consensus on the urgency of climate action. People with little scientific background, or strong ties to industries they would be regulating, were appointed to scientific leadership positions. One of the administration’s first actions was to order scientists and other employees at EPA and other agencies to halt public communications. Several federal scientists working on climate change have said they were silenced, sidelined or demoted. At least three—a senior employee at the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072017/whistleblower-trump-intimidation-abuse-power-climate-scientists-joel-clement-zinke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Interior\u003c/a>, one at the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16082019/cdc-scientist-whistleblower-complaint-climate-health-research-trump-usda-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> and another at the National Park Service—invoked whistleblower protections. Independent science advisors, such as members of the EPA’s \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08052017/epa-science-advisory-board-dismissed-scott-pruitt-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Board of Scientific Counselors\u003c/a>, have also been sidelined. Scientific content on government websites has been altered and the public’s access to data reduced. Climate data from the government’s open portal website was removed. So was the EPA’s climate change website. The words “climate change” have been purged from government reports, and other reports have been buried\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413\">,\u003c/a> including by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officials at the Department of Agriculture.\u003c/a> The administration even edited a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/05/10/pentagon-revised-obama-era-report-to-remove-risks-from-climate-change/?utm_term=.1174b4bd9f55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense Department report\u003c/a> to downplay its climate findings. Through speeches and tweets, the president has repeatedly spread misinformation to the public through his climate denial and denigration of renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA, meanwhile, is working to finalize its proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22032018/epa-air-pollution-soot-rules-scott-pruitt-secret-science-policy-health-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suppress the types of scientific evidence\u003c/a> the agency can use in writing its rules. This includes prohibiting the use of well-established, long-term scientific studies underpinning the nation’s air pollution rules, a change the fossil fuel industry had sought for years. Known as the “secret science” rule, it has been \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/11/25/science.aba3197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lambasted by scientists and health experts worldwide\u003c/a>. Related, the White House \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042019/trump-omb-secret-science-policy-memo-pollution-health-studies-heritage-foundation-vought\">issued a memo\u003c/a> offering new ways for fossil fuel and other industries to challenge science-based policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Undermining clean energy development and energy efficiency\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn its \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032019/trump-budget-cuts-renewable-energy-efficiency-electric-vehicle-tax-credit-deficit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget proposals\u003c/a>, the Trump administration has made clear its resolve to retreat from a federal role in advancing a clean energy economy and maintaining global leadership in the technology. It has proposed repeatedly to radically \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02042019/trump-budget-cuts-national-labs-clean-energy-leadership-solar-wind-electric-vehicles-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slash funding\u003c/a> for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), a move that would cripple support for novel and promising technologies for advanced wind turbines, high-tech materials, energy-efficient buildings and more. He has tried to eliminate tax credits for electric vehicles and made several attempts to eliminate the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, an incubator for cutting-edge energy research and development. Congress has largely rebuffed this scale of funding cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration issued in 2019 its final rule to dramatically weaken energy-efficient light bulb standards that Congress voted to phase in a decade ago. The standards would have eliminated inefficient light bulbs nationwide, saving some 1.5 trillion kilowatt-hours by 2030 and hundreds of millions tons of CO2. And it delayed for three years standards to substantially cut the energy that household and commercial appliances consume, moving to enact them only after \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/18-15380/18-15380-2019-10-10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a federal appeals court ruled \u003c/a>the hold was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Trying to undercut California’s world-leading climate progress\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAfter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082018/trump-fuel-efficiency-standards-rollback-climate-change-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freezing Obama’s national fuel-economy improvements\u003c/a>, the administration stripped California of its legal authority to enact the nation’s toughest fuel-efficiency standards, a move that could squelch the nascent U.S. market for zero-emission vehicles at a critical time. It sued the state over its cap-and-trade agreement with Quebec to lower fossil fuel emissions, arguing that California exceeded its authority when it launched. It has threatened action against California on air and water pollution. Those moves run counter to the administration’s hands-off approach and deregulatory agenda. Because of that—and because California has among the best compliance records in the nation on water pollution and has invested billions to improve air quality—former federal officials have said the efforts reek of political score-settling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ICN’s Take\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn the Trump administration’s early days, climate policy optimists gamely sifted through the president’s statements, his administration’s actions, and other nations’ reactions for grains of hope. Perhaps Trump would be persuaded to maintain the United States’ seat at the table in international climate negotiations. Perhaps the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epas-pruitt-praised-for-effectiveness-hits-bumps-in-his-rollback-campaign/2018/05/20/c6ca13d8-53b3-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html?noredirect=on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">efforts\u003c/a> of his early, scandal-plagued cabinet members to erase climate regulation would fail. Or perhaps \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/4800747/china-climate-change-paris-agreement-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other nations would step up\u003c/a> to fill the climate leadership void created by Trump, and the world would forge ahead with the action needed to address the climate crisis, leaving the United States behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All such hopes have been in vain. Although Trump occasionally feigns concern about climate—”\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/03/its-possible-that-trump-doesnt-actually-know-what-climate-change-is/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I think about it all the time,\u003c/a>” he once said—his policy has been an unmitigated and relentless drive toward fossil energy development. The missteps of his former EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, and others in the first round of appointees, have been erased by seasoned Washington bureaucrats and lobbyists who now are at the helm of the environmental agencies. And instead of racing to grasp the leadership baton dropped by Trump, China, the European Union and other large carbon polluters are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/climate/cop25-un-climate-talks-madrid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">falling behind both in their own ambition and in support\u003c/a> for the nations most vulnerable to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump’s intentions, and his administration’s deleterious impact on global climate progress, will be evident to voters in 2020 in a way that many failed to grasp four years earlier. The only question is whether those who care about the planet’s future can unite as a political force in a way that eluded them in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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