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Dec 16 (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden is expected as soon as this week to name members of his core team to overhaul U.S. energy and environment policy to fight climate change, with a goal of bringing the economy to net-zero emissions by 2050.
A key part of his campaign, his climate and environmental justice plan includes ramping up clean energy technology and usage, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, federal procurement of clean energy technology and re-engaging the United States in a global pact to fight warming.
It also aims to tackle racial and economic inequality by addressing air and water pollution in minority, low-income areas located at the fenceline of major industrial facilities.
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From the looks of President-elect Joe Biden’s selections for cabinet positions and other high offices, it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Mr. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine.
In naming John Kerry a climate “czar,” Rep. Deb Haaland, New Mexico Democrat, to head the Department of the Interior if confirmed Ms. Haaland would become the first Native American cabinet secretary in history, a diversity priority for Mr. Biden and Michael Regan, head of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, who would be the first Black man to lead the EPA (ditto on diversity), Mr. Biden has signaled he is all-in on using government to change the climate, which some believe
A barge on the Mahakam River with coal from the mining area in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP, Getty Images)
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The process of turning coal possibly the most carbon-intensive and environmentally harmful fossil fuel into a liquid gas fell out of favour after World War II, due to its high cost, pollution footprint, and readily available alternatives like natural gas and petroleum. But as coal for electricity and industrial use falls, the industry is trying to revive this old technology under a modern veneer.
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