Trump parroted those falsehoods on stage with little pushback from the moderator, claiming the Green New Deal would cost “$100 trillion,” a figure based on a bogus number fabricated by a conservative think tank. However, some have expressed concerns it doesn’t include a carbon tax or address fossil fuels more directly. When Biden released the new plan July 14, the group tweeted its support. “That is what climate-friendly jobs can do. That basically means no windows, no nothing.”, “Dr. The network calls for the U.S. and Canada to keep 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, which would reduce contamination on Indigenous lands. Supporters of measures to address climate change said such actions are overdue. "This would have been a good plan a year ago. The core demands of the movement remain popular. From Houston, Texas, to Paradise, California; from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Davenport, Iowa, the last four years have seen record-breaking storms, … That idea was previously proposed by Democratic Washington Gov. At the national level, Trump has repeatedly denied human-caused climate change, and he and others have criticized Biden’s plan as too costly and said added environmental regulations would hinder businesses. “We decided we can’t control what Trump does,” Beaton said. Trump gave no direct response. Wind and solar made up 9% of large-scale electricity generation in the U.S. in 2019, the Energy Information Administration estimated. ‘Safe to Assume the Virus Is Everywhere,’ Wisconsin’s Chief Medical Officer Says, Agriculture Inslee supports Biden’s new approach. “We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.”, "You said you went to Delaware State but you forgot the name of your college. Trump Rambled About ‘Immaculate Air’ And Cleaning Forests. The plan’s big goals are to eradicate carbon pollution from the power sector by 2035 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The progressive left is with Joe Biden, and we will pass a Green New Deal.”. And it’s better for the environment too.”. Nobody is going to build another oil-fired plant in America. "All of those are sort of estimates that require a ton of assumptions, and the estimates are only as good as the assumptions you put in," Gross said. Biden pitched his plan to add “millions of good-paying jobs” created by new efforts to eliminate the energy sector’s emissions by 2035 and build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles. Biden said he plans to pay for his proposed improvements by raising the corporate income tax rate, increasing taxes on wealthy Americans, and using stimulus money. Still, Trump tried to paint the Democrat as a stooge of the climate hard-liners to Biden’s left. Despite running in 2016 on restoring coal as the nation’s primary fuel for electricity, coal plants have closed at the fastest rate to date under Trump, a sign of decline for the industry. They like that it speeds up the timetable for cutting emissions. Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institution, said Biden’s plan is "ambitious but possible.". For a future Biden administration, that’s a wrinkle in any serious climate plan. Sixty percent of registered voters in eight battleground states said they or someone they know have experienced the effects of climate change, according to a Public Policy Polling survey of 896 registered voters earlier this month. Carol Craig Was Surprised by How Little Her Students Knew About Voting. (Obama and Biden) brought back nothing. In fact, the former vice president believes those two efforts should go together. “I remember having this moment where I thought ‘We are taking a massive step backward regarding climate change,’ “ Beaton recalled. The plan would create an Energy Efficiency and Clean Electricity Standard for utilities and grid operators. Nearly 2,000 miles west of the Cleveland auditorium where President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden sparred in their first televised debate Tuesday night, fires have scorched a record 2.5 million acres and incinerated entire towns ― and there are still several months left in the fire season. He added that including a fee on imports would "get other countries to join us in fixing the economics of free dumping into the trash dump of the sky.". He also says he can lead in the fight against climate change. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost? “I support the Biden plan that I put forward,” he said. Washington, DC What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source?