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942 views President Biden campaigned on prioritizing climate change in his Administration, with an ambitious $2T plan to invest in clean energy and setting a target for a carbon-free electricity sector by 2035. His “Build Back Better” plan centered around accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies like electric vehicles, solar, wind, and energy efficient buildings. It is no surprise then that the new Administration has taken swift action on clean energy and climate in the early days of Biden’s tenure. Below is a summary of the key personnel President Biden has chosen to im...

Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto, Japan. Photo by Eleonora Albasi on Unsplash. This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This report also was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.  As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a "Harry Potter" book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, "War and Peace" and weed. Sometimes reading, some...

The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America The grass has a bad rap in the U.S. as an invasive nuisance, but the plant can quickly sequester at least double—and maybe even six times—the amount of carbon as a similar stand of trees. By Audrey Gray Related Share this article This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.  As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket,

Of legislation that really did spend trillions of dollars to reconfigure the american industrial base? >> yeah, it can definitely happen. the scientists say we have the technology, it can happen if we start right away. we can do what's needed in the next ten years which are the critical years. and the only thing that's in the way is the political will, and that's because the fossil fuel industry has spent so much money lobbying and paying for the campaigns with a lot of -- of the people in washington. but it can happen. recently over 500 environmental groups and labor groups issued a call to t...

Generational defining piece of legislation that really did spend trillions of dollars to kind of reconfigure the american industrial base? >> yeah, it can definitely happen. the scientists say we have the technology. it can happen. if we start right away, we can -- we can do what's needed in the next ten years, which are the critical years, and the only thing that's in the way is the political will, and that's because the fossil fuel industry has spent so much money lobbying and paying for the campaigns of a lot of the -- of the people in washington. but it can happen. recently over 500 enviro...