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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">With demand for fossil fuels down across the state, California’s latest quarterly cap-and-trade auction generated very little money for the state to spend on key environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auction results are another sign that industrial activity in California has been severely weakened by the statewide shelter-in-place order meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s cap-and-trade program aims to limit greenhouse gases, which cause climate change, by capping industry emissions and allowing businesses to buy and sell credits at auction on a state-sponsored marketplace.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money generated from those sales is then used by the state for environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The latest auction produced just $25 million in revenue, significantly less than the $600 million to $850 million raised at similar auctions during the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sold only 37% of its allowances at the auction, which was held May 20. 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According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Energy_Insights_ada.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">state’s energy commission\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, gasoline production in California declined 47.5% between March and April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jet fuel production declined 68.3% during that time, and diesel production fell 33.2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Demand for natural gas has actually been higher during the pandemic compared to the same time period last year, likely due to colder weather rather than any impacts from the coronavirus. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">A panel of federal judges on the \u003cspan class=\"s1\">9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in\u003c/span> Pasadena handed major fossil fuel companies a setback in two climate-related cases brought by California cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two unanimous rulings by the three-judge panel move the cases back to state court, where they were initially filed, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">clearing a major hurdle for the litigation following a string of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956561/after-setbacks-calif-governments-press-their-climate-suit-against-fossil-fuel-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">setbacks \u003c/span>\u003c/a>that included the transfer of the cases to \u003c/span>federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The lawsuits, one brought by the the counties of San Mateo, Marin and Santa Cruz and the cities of Richmond and Imperial Beach, and the other brought by Oakland and San Francisco, seek billions of dollars in damages from oil and gas companies to pay for the effects of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The lawsuits argue that fossil fuel companies are responsible for the remediation costs and property damage from increasingly severe wildfires, rising sea levels and intense storms that batter coastal communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/05/26/18-15499.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision\u003c/a>, the judges \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/05/26/18-15499.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">affirmed\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a 9th Circuit ruling that municipalities can pursue climate cases in state court and applying state law, seeking damages from 30 oil and gas companies including Chevron, ExxonMobil and Phillips 66.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The judges also \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/05/26/18-16663.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">revived\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the case brought by San Francisco and Oakland against BP, Chevron, and three other oil companies; a U.S. District court judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926396/federal-judge-dismisses-climate-case-against-big-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">dismissed\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that lawsuit in 2018, saying the scope of the case required a global solution beyond the purview of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco and Oakland taxpayers are already incurring the costs of dealing with the damage these fossil fuel companies knowingly caused,” San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said Tuesday in an email. “It is time for these companies to pay their fair share. They should not be able to stick taxpayers with the bill for the damage they knew they were causing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Sean Comey, senior adviser for external affairs at Chevron, wrote in an email that the cities are trying to “penalize the production of affordable, reliable and ever cleaner energy, which for decades has been authorized and encouraged by law and government policy makers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has argued in legal briefs that the cities are trying to use state courts to regulate global energy policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Chevron believes the cases belong in federal court,” Comey said. “They present substantial issues of national law and policy which makes them inappropriate for state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the rulings in favor of the California communities, a final decision in the cases is still months or even years away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cem>Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">After selling off more than $1 billion in assets over the last year, the University of California’s investment portfolio is now completely divested of oil, gas and other fossil fuel companies, UC \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-s-investment-portfolios-fossil-free-clean-energy-investments-top-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">While it is not the first educational system to completely rid itself of fossil fuel investments, with about 285,000 students, it is the largest in the country to withdraw financial stakes in an industry that is the principal driver of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Sherman, chair of the UC Board of Regents investments committee, said in a statement that the investment strategy includes a “hopeful view of the future.” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“As long-term investors, we believe the university and its stakeholders are much better served by investing in promising opportunities in the alternative energy field rather than gambling on oil and gas,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jagdeep Singh Bachher, UC’s chief investment officer, said in a statement that fossil fuel companies posed “an unacceptable risk” financially.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">For years, the climate advocacy group 350.org and student activists have led a campaign aimed at cutting off financing to fossil fuel companies by encouraging universities and other big financial institutions to walk away from the oil, gas and coal industries. The group’s slogan is “not a penny more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Just amazing,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1262936446651990016?s=20\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">tweeted \u003c/span>\u003c/a>Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and a leader of the movement. “Univ of California system finishes its massive divestment from fossil fuels. Such thanks to all who made this happen”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divestments from big institutions total more than $11 trillion, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://350.org/press-release/global-fossil-fuel-divestment-11t/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty other colleges and universities have also divested, including California Institute of the Arts, Chico State University and the Peralta Community College District in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">UC’s lead investors said in a Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-16/divestment-fossil-fuel-university-of-california-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed\u003c/a> published in September that the decision to divest was not driven by the demands of environmentalists or an effort to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they framed the decision as sound financial thinking based on “risk-averse” reasoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Some might see our action as born of political pressure\u003ci>,\u003c/i> or as green movement idealism or perhaps political correctness run amok,” they wrote. “So be it; we are part of a university system where diversity of opinion thrives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the university’s shedding of $1 billion in fossil fuel assets has coincided with about the same amount of added investments in clean energy, mostly large-scale solar and wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For many, it was one of the smallest bills of the year, the result of warmer weather and the state’s issuing of an approximately $35 climate credit to most ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Even though the bills have been smaller, power providers say people are falling behind on their payments, and the impact of a constricting economy combined with the anticipated higher electricity costs could make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Nick Chaset, CEO of East Bay Community Energy, a community choice aggregator based in Oakland that’s an alternative to PG&E,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>says customers are already falling behind on payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“It’s because of those compounding effects that we’re seeing customers delay or be unable to pay their bill,” he said. “We are just at the beginning. 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PG&E will also send an extra notice to people enrolled in this program before a power shutoff to prevent lines from touching off a wildfire, what it calls a Public Safety Power Shutoff.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What Kind of Relief are Some Bay Area Power Providers Offering?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PG&E:\u003c/b> The utility says it has suspended service disconnections for people who can’t pay their bills and is offering flexible payment plans. Read more on that program \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/protective-protocols/covid19-protections.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_covid19consumerprotections#financialAssistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CleanPowerSF: \u003c/b>Customers won’t be unenrolled from the program if they cannot make payments, and CleanPowerSF is offering flexible payment plans — you can find more information on their services \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marin Clean Energy: \u003c/b>The North Bay choice aggregator has indefinitely suspended collections for people who can’t pay their bill and pulled together cost-saving resources \u003ca href=\"https://www.mcecleanenergy.org/news/energy-affordability-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. \u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay Community Energy:\u003c/strong> EBCE suspended collections, and customers won’t be dropped from the program for nonpayment. 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"content": "\u003cp>With the dramatic reduction in car traffic and commercial flights, carbon emissions have been falling around the globe. If the slowdown continues, \u003ca href=\"https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-set-to-cause-largest-ever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions\">some are estimating\u003c/a> the world could see the largest drop in emissions in the last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, overall greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are still going up and the decline will likely be smaller than what scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the effects are just starting to appear. In China, the first country to lock down, greenhouse gas emissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/04/811019032/why-chinas-air-has-been-cleaner-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak\">dropped an estimated 25%\u003c/a> in February as factories and industrial producers slowed output. That decreased coal burning, which has come back slowly since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A month or two of shelter in place will drop carbon dioxide emissions a few percent here or there, but it won’t change the year substantially unless we stay like this for some time,” says Rob Jackson, environmental scientist at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declines are still too small to be read by greenhouse gas observatories around the world, like the one \u003ca href=\"https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/\">on top of the Mauna Loa volcano\u003c/a> in Hawaii, given the natural changes in atmosphere this time of year. Because much of the Earth’s land mass is in the northern hemisphere, plants and forests there cause carbon levels to fluctuate as they bloom in the spring, drawing carbon dioxide from the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If countries continue shelter-at-home orders, emissions declines could be greater. The U.S. Energy Information Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/\">estimates U.S. emissions from gas and energy use could drop\u003c/a> more than 7% this year, similar to a 2009 decline during the financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worldwide, early estimates put global emissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-set-to-cause-largest-ever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions\">dropping around 4%.\u003c/a> Still, that’s less than the \u003ca href=\"https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/cut-global-emissions-76-percent-every-year-next-decade-meet-15degc\">7.6% the U.N. says is needed\u003c/a> to avoid the worst impacts of climate change by limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To achieve those cuts, scientists say more fundamental changes are needed, like switching to renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t the way we want to reduce our fossil fuel emissions,” says Jackson. “We don’t want tens of millions of people being out of work as a path to decarbonizing our economy. We need systemic change in our energy infrastructure and new green technologies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Jackson says the recent changes are providing useful insights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s as if a third of the cars on the road were suddenly electric, running on clean electricity and the air pollution is plummeting,” says Jackson. “It’s really a remarkable experiment and it shows the benefits of clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Carbon+Emissions+Are+Falling%2C+But+Still+Not+Enough%2C+Scientists+Say&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">It’s official. After years of blustery promises and draft proposals, the Trump administration Tuesday released final rules tossing out auto emissions standards and gutting one of the U.S.’s biggest efforts to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rollback raises the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years, ends ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and finalizes a plan to eliminate California’s right to enact stricter tailpipe emissions rules than the federal government–a right the state has had for more than a half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/final-fr-safe-preamble.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">final rule\u003c/span>\u003c/a> sets mileage standards through 2026. 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And that’s not where California or America will go.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Carlson, a law professor at UCLA, also questioned the legality of the Trump administration’s new rules. She says the policy does not fit “with their statutory obligations.” \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The motivation here is to promote fossil fuels,” she said. “That’s been an underlying justification for a lot of the environmental rollbacks the Trump administration is engaged in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the administration has a legal obligation to protect public health and the environment and to maximize fuel economy. “When you take a look at the justifications, they’re really trying to fit a square peg into a round hole just doesn’t fit well,” she said. \u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and about a dozen other states say they will continue resisting the Trump standards in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s Waiver\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Trump administration announced its intention to withdraw California’s waiver that allowed it to set its own tougher smog rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s exemption was previously provided to the state under the Clean Air Act; state officials are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/cleancars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">suing\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> keep the waiver\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, California’s top air regulator, has said the state’s ability to set its own car rules is necessary to protect public health in California and fight climate change. 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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She says the policy does not fit “with their statutory obligations.” \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The motivation here is to promote fossil fuels,” she said. “That’s been an underlying justification for a lot of the environmental rollbacks the Trump administration is engaged in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the administration has a legal obligation to protect public health and the environment and to maximize fuel economy. “When you take a look at the justifications, they’re really trying to fit a square peg into a round hole just doesn’t fit well,” she said. \u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and about a dozen other states say they will continue resisting the Trump standards in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s Waiver\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Trump administration announced its intention to withdraw California’s waiver that allowed it to set its own tougher smog rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s exemption was previously provided to the state under the Clean Air Act; state officials are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/cleancars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">suing\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> keep the waiver\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, California’s top air regulator, has said the state’s ability to set its own car rules is necessary to protect public health in California and fight climate change. 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. 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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. 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"title": "Here's Where Each of the Presidential Candidates Stands on Climate Change",
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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. 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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. 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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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"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/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>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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. 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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>\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\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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/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>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\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>• 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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"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. 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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. 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