After a Massachusetts climate bill was vetoed by Governor Charlie Baker, BU sustainability expert discusses how policymakers can make the state carbon free by 2050.
Editor of the Reformer:
One of my most persistent trolls, Mr. Carl Bucholt of Manchester, indignantly demands that I tell the world what my solution is to the climate âcrisis.â ( A quick question for John McClaughry, Jan 22).
First, âcrisisâ is a political label, not a scientific conclusion. If the average temperature in North America increases by one degree Centigrade by 2100, is that a âcrisisâ? It has already increased by one degree Centigrade since about 1860, when the Little Ice Age wound down, and so far as I can see, that has been a good thing. But everyone is entitled to push the âcrisisâ button based on his or her own views.
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President Joe Biden signed sweeping actions to combat climate change just hours after taking the oath of office, moving to rejoin the Paris accord and imposing a moratorium on oil leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Environmentalists said Bidenâs actions some of which could take years to be implemented renew the US commitment to safeguarding the environment and signal to the world that America has returned to the global fight against climate change.
The moves mark a dramatic rebuke of President Donald Trumpâs pro-industry approach to energy and the environment.
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The Massachusetts State House the seat of Government in Boston. United States. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images
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The Biden administration promises to restart U.S. progress on clean energy and climate policy, after the backsliding of the last four years.
But one thing that won’t change from the Trump administration is that state governments will be the most likely to pass far-reaching legislation, considering that, on the federal level, President Joe Biden is working with a narrowly divided Congress.
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|Thursday, January 21, 2021
Biden s flurry of actions drew opposition from industry and, with Paris, even a key Senate Democrat.
(Bloomberg) President Joe Biden signed sweeping actions to combat climate change just hours after taking the oath of office, moving to rejoin the Paris accord and imposing a moratorium on oil leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Environmentalists said Biden’s actions some of which could take years to be implemented renew the U.S. commitment to safeguarding the environment and signal to the world that America has returned to the global fight against climate change.