climate policy
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The First Major U.S. Climate Law in a Decade Is on the Cusp of a Senate Vote
“Bipartisan climate policy” is a unicorn of phrases when it comes to Congress, let alone “bipartisan climate policy instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases.” Yet on Monday, this mythical creature appeared after senators agreed to include a plan to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, an extremely powerful greenhouse…
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The Climate Test That Will Tell the World If Biden Is Serious About Change
U.S. President Donald Trump has been a boon to world leaders looking to tout their climate bonafides. A simple “hey, at least we’re not that guy” has helped other countries launder some watered-down climate goals.
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‘2020 Really Belongs to Us’: How the Youth Climate Movement Plans to Save the Planet in November
The 2020 U.S. election is, simply put, the most important election the planet has ever seen. It may sound like American hyperbole or bluster, but the reality of four years under the Trump administration combined with what it has telegraphed as its plan for the next four years would be a disaster for the climate.…
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Leaked DNC Platform Draft Shows the Party Is Improving on Climate — Just Not Enough
Democratic Party officials put together a draft of the 2020 platform which includes several pages on the climate crisis, but contains barely any mention of the biggest cause of that crisis: burning fossil fuels.