2020 candidate Gov. Jay Inslee challenges former VP Joe Biden on climate: 'He's going to have to up his game.'
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democratic candidate for president, won't accept half measures in combating climate change -- he proposes shooting for the moon.
"I do believe we have a magic moment, a marriage of great urgency - no longer a line on a graph," Inslee said at a Thursday morning press conference at a water treatment facility in southwest Washington, D.C,"It is time for the people of fire and flood to have a president who will stand up and protect them from the ravages of climate change."
"If you start your assessment that you have to be moderate, or be in the middle ground - you're going to leave people under flood seeking higher ground in Iowa, which is happening today... nothing else will be satisfactory," Inslee said, saying he hoped Joe Biden would join him in his push to wean the nation off coal."I hope all the candidates will do that.
The governor's announcement follows the release of the first part of his plan to combat climate change, which set 100% clean standards for electricity, new vehicles and new buildings in the United States. It also comes the week after Inslee signed into a law a package of bills in his own state to rid Washington's electric grid of fossil-fuel-generated power by 2045, cementing the state's status as a national leader in the clean power movement.
As the first leg of his plan did, Inslee's announcement garnered praise from activists and experts in the climate field, and comes as the issue continues to move to the forefront of Democratic voters' minds in the early stages of the primary. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in an implicit dig against former Vice President Joe Biden's reported"middle ground" approach to climate change, said at a rally for the Green New Deal earlier this week,"I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need a 'middle of the road' approach to save our lives.
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