After stalling plans for pollution regulations, Biden is trying to keep progressives onboard while appealing to swing state voters
Joe Biden, touted as the US’s first climate president, is presiding over the quiet weakening of his two most significant plans to slash planet-heating emissions, suggesting that tackling the climate crisis will take a back seat in a febrile election year.
The realpolitik of this calculus means that the US has decelerated on climate action, amid record-breaking global temperatures will soonA Trump victory could lead to an additional 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared to those released during Biden’s term, the equivalent of the annual emissions of the EU and Japan, according to an
Power plants are responsible for around a quarter of the US’s total carbon emissions, and a previous attempt by Barack Obama’s administration to curb their planet-heating pollution was effectively killed off by the supreme court. This transition is bumpy, however. EV prices remain higher than most gasoline- or diesel-powered cars, the recharging infrastructure remains patchy and some drivers have found it difficult to find available models that qualify for the generous EV tax rebates offered by the Inflation Reduction Act .
Politically, it provides Biden some needed credit with younger, climate-conscious voters who have been enraged by rampant, record oil and gas drilling during his presidency. The president will need these voters if he hopes to defeat Trump again in November.The Exxon Mobil plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 28 February 2020. Some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants sit between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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