- Question
Will Donald Trump or Joe Biden be better for the environment?
Climate change poses an existential threat to the world. The 2020 United States Presidential candidates are in a position to make or break the future of this planet. Each candidate takes a starkly different stance on the environment and its intersection with the economy, trade, and scientific fact.
Donald Trump will be better for the environment
President Donald J. Trump has a strong environmental record and is pursuing effective policies to advance environmental protection while promoting economic growth.
Joe Biden will be better for the environment
Biden believes that (1) the United States urgently needs to embrace greater ambition on an epic scale to meet the scope of the environmental challenge, and (2) our environment and our economy are completely and totally connected.
- Biden will support the coal miners and their communities.
- Biden will move the U.S. to zero emissions and a clean energy economy.
- Biden will hold polluters accountable to protect minority communities.
- Biden will take an international approach to the climate crisis.
- Biden will invest in clean and resilient infrastructure.
Neither candidate will do enough for the environment
This position holds that neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden will do enough for the environment. It argues neither treats the climate crisis as the emergency it is, that both fall short on green transport and zero waste, and that both accept money from energy executives.