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Biden and Congressional Democrats Support Policies That Will Undermine Their Own Clean Energy Goals
The House passed a resolution that will reimpose tariffs on solar panels from China, while the EPA sits on applications for carbon capture technology that may soon be mandatory.
by Joe Lancaster Reason.com
President Joe Biden is serious about fighting climate change through clean energy. As part of his 2020 presidential platform, he endorsed the ambitious and pricey “Green New Deal” and pledged to “ensure the U.S. achieves a 100% clean energy economy and reaches net-zero emissions no later than 2050.” Once in office, Biden “set a goal to reach 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035.”
It’s ironic, then, that Biden’s administration and congressional allies are undermining those very same goals.
The two primary methods of mitigating carbon emissions are either reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere—shifting to a cleaner technology like wind or solar, for example—or removing and trapping carbon that has already been released. One example of the latter is carbon capture and storage (CCS), which removes carbon from the atmosphere and contains it within the natural environment, either by absorbing it into trees and oceans or capturing and storing it underground.