Assessing Biden’s Climate Plan

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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President Biden’s plans for curbing the most devastating impacts of a changing climate are ambitious. His administration is not only planning a sharp U-turn from the previous White House — former President Donald Trump openly mocked the science behind human-caused climate change — but those aims go even further than the Obama administration’s. Today, we look at the Biden administration’s environmental proposals, as well as the potential roadblocks and whether these changes can last.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily.
0:10.2	Today.
0:11.7	In the first days of his presidency, Joe Biden has ordered that the U.S.
0:16.2	rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, abandon the Keystone Oil Pipeline, and end energy exploration on federal lands.
0:24.7	But the real work of reducing America's biggest sources of emissions has just begun.
0:31.2	My colleague, Coral Davenport, assesses Biden's long-term plan to combat climate change.
0:44.7	It's Tuesday, February 2nd.
0:47.2	Michael Babaro.
0:53.2	Coral Davenport.
0:55.2	Michael Babaro.
0:57.2	You're looking well.
0:59.2	COVID-free.
1:01.2	Is this your work from home setup? You could give a nice little...
1:05.2	Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, my husband gets the basement, so he gets more privacy, but uh, that's all right.
1:11.2	Yeah, so you have the sunlight and he has the...
1:13.2	He has pride. He has a door.
1:15.2	I really appreciate you making time for us. Of course.
1:21.2	Coral, this is a policy discussion, ultimately, about Joe Biden's climate plan.
1:26.2	But just to start, I wonder if you can conjure the Biden climate agenda as a kind of vision that people will experience themselves.
1:38.2	Let's say it's 2035, and everything that this new administration wants to get done on climate has actually gotten done.
1:46.2	What does life look like?
1:48.2	Okay, given that that's a big if, if everything really gets done, then here's what life would look like.
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