A DNC panel stacked with progressive climate activists is pressing Joe Biden to back a plan to spend up to $16 trillion to speed the country away from fossil fuels
A Democratic National Committee panel stacked with progressive climate activists is pressing Joe Biden to back a plan to spend up to $16 trillion to speed the country away from fossil fuels, a call that could complicate his efforts to appeal to blue-collar voters in the swing states he needs to win in November.
said Michelle Deatrick who led the panel and was a surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders during the primaries, calling climate change “one of the top two issues for Democrats and a lot of independents.”So let’s energize our base, let’s energize the middle. Let’s do what’s right because the planet is at stake.”
The DNC formed the group after rejecting proposals to hold a primary debate devoted solely to climate change.of the Democrats who ran for president this year and are on par with those promoted byThe plan urges the party's nominee to support a declaration of a national climate emergency to help drive the U.S. to nearlycalls for the U.S.
40 percent of clean energy and environmental investments go to vulnerable communities and those that suffer the most from pollution.it would release a new strategy on climate change in the coming weeks, was not a part of drafting the plan. The former vice president has failed to win over many of the Democratic Party's younger voters who lined up behind Sanders — including supporters of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, which called for a quick overhaul of the U.S.
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