Daily on Energy: Democrats try to please everybody with climate plan
by Josh Siegel, Energy and Environment Reporter & Abby Smith, Energy and Environment Reporter |
| June 30, 2020 12:10 PM
Democrats’ grab bag climate plan: Democrats’ plan to “solve the climate crisis†released Tuesday tries to be all things for all people, laying out a grab bag of aggressive policies as a signal of priorities to a restive base.
The 538-page plan, compiled over a year and a half by Democratic staff of the House’s special climate committee, endorses both a clean electricity mandate and carbon pricing, without specifying a preference as the core means to eliminate emissions from the power sector by 2040. Democrats’ support for carbon pricing is softer (it’s “not a silver bullet,†the plan says), and the report doesn’t specify a preference for how to use the revenue, avoiding wading too deep on an idea that has become less popular among liberals.
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