Biden sets new emissions targets in a final flurry of climate action

https://www.newsweek.com/biden-sets-new-emissions-targets-final-flurry-climate-action-2003234

by newsweek

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  1. By Jeff Young – Environment and Sustainability Editor:

    As his final weeks in the White House wind down, President Joe Biden and his top aides are making a home-stretch sprint on climate action, finalizing multibillion-dollar clean-energy loans, supporting state-level action on EVs and setting a new national target for greenhouse gas reductions.

    “I’m proud to announce an ambitious new goal: cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 percent by 2035,” Biden said in a video statement released by the White House Thursday. The new target to control carbon pollution from across the economy is the latest U.S. commitment to meet targets in the international Paris Agreement on climate change.

    Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/biden-sets-new-emissions-targets-final-flurry-climate-action-2003234](https://www.newsweek.com/biden-sets-new-emissions-targets-final-flurry-climate-action-2003234)

  2. I just really have a hard time believing the USA is going to do anything productive other than make billionaires trillionaires for the next 5-10 years.

  3. what’s the point of setting new goals when they’re not going to be met

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