“W/out a clean energy standard in the reconciliation package, Biden admin cannot meet pledge of 50% reduction in U.S. carbon emissions by 2030. And international climate negotiations begin to collapse.”
When news broke on Friday evening that the White House was cutting the Clean Electricity Performance Program from President Biden’s budget to appease Sen. Joe Manchin, the centrist West Virginia Democrat, environmental experts were quick to identify the global implications for the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State.
Of the bill’s provisions to cut climate pollution, the Clean Electricity Performance Program, which would reward utilities for switching to clean energy and penalize them for continued reliance on fossil fuels, would deliver the biggest impact, according toby a coalition of environmental advocacy organizations and think tanks. Moving to a completely clean electricity generation system would also enable other measures in the legislation to deliver bigger benefits.
“That’s like the million-dollar question,” Jake Schmidt, senior strategic director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Yahoo News. “If there’s a clear sign that the main climate provisions that are going to drive emissions towards 50 percent are still intact and there’s support for that, that obviously gives the U.S. a huge leg up in trying to encourage other countries to step forward.”Environmental advocates aren’t giving up hope on the CEPP yet.
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