How Gov. Jay Inslee would address climate change
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By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.Inslee’s climate policy lands on the heels of former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s, who earlier this weekfor the government and private sector to spend $5 trillion over 10 years on clean energy infrastructure. Many of the other candidates have coalesced around ambitious climate action along the lines of the Green New Deal advanced by activists and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen.
Emissions from the three sectors — transportation, electricity and buildings — covered by the plan account for about 70 percent of carbon emissions in the U.S. Other priorities in the plan include speeding the deployment of renewable energy on federal lands and offshore waters, favoring electric and other low-carbon alternative fuels for vehicles with tax incentives, and creating a zero-emission national building standard by 2023.
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