Source: US Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), 10/27/21


Our country set an alarming record in 2020: Americans endured 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. Even more terrifying: America is set to surpass that record this year!   But even if we stopped emitting all new carbon pollution starting today, we’re still unfortunately in very deep trouble. Leading scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and elsewhere now tell us that, in addition to sharply reducing our emissions from power plants and vehicles, we have to take steps to remove carbon that’s already in the air. 

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