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.
Supporting arguments · 5
- Biden will support the coal miners and their communities.Biden will commit our country to fulfilling our obligation to all workers impacted by the energy transition, like coal miners and power plant workers and their communities.
- Biden will move the U.S. to zero emissions and a clean energy economy.Biden will 1) establish an enforcement mechanism to achieve the 2050 goal, 2) make a historic investment in energy and climate research and innovation, 3) incentivize the rapid deployment of clean energy innovations across the economy.
- Biden will hold polluters accountable to protect minority communities.Biden will reinstate federal protections, rolled back by the Trump Administration, that were designed to protect communities. He will make it a priority for all agencies to engage in community-driven approaches to develop solutions for environmental injustices affecting communities of color, low-income, and indigenous communities.
- Biden will take an international approach to the climate crisis.Biden will use every tool of American foreign policy to push the rest of the world to raise their ambitions alongside the United States.
- Biden will invest in clean and resilient infrastructure.Biden will commit that every infrastructure investment that receives federal funding should reduce climate pollution, as much as possible. Climate impacts are regional, and the solutions will be too.